How2 make pages invisible to search browsers?

[Daria]

re: subj?

For example, I have the page that is live on the server, but it's a WIP, and I don't want someone to hit it via search engine, but I still want that page to be available for a direct url call.

[jmaresca2005]

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">

[Daria]

Tthhaannkkss!

[jmaresca2005]

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">


remember to change this tag once your WIP is complete. All you would have to do is this >> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,follow">

[Daria]

:D will do

[jmaresca2005]

oops. I have to make a correction. google doesnt adhere to the robots meta tag so in order to block google from indexing your page you need to add this >> <a href="your-domain-name.com" rel="nofollow" >

the meta tag I listed before will work with the other search engines

[Daria]

Good point. Thanks :)

[felgall]

All the spambots will ignore the robots tag and will search the page for whatever they are looking for regardless.