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Mike Burdick
06-12-2005, 12:54 AM
I have several pages that are being listed by search engines. These pages are only help pages. Is there a way I can prevent these from being listed by search engines?

Thanks...

Intensity
06-12-2005, 12:57 AM
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

Add this to the page that you don't want indexed.

BeachSide
06-12-2005, 03:14 AM
Better yet... instead of editing each and every page that you don't want a robot to index (I have over 500 pages just on one site so I block entire directories) use the robots.txt file to tell them to not index them.
Here (http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm) is a good tutorial that explains how they work.

Mike Burdick
06-12-2005, 01:03 PM
Thanks Intensity and BeachSide! I only have a few pages I want to do this for so I'll use both suggestions.

Mike