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Blocking directory/folder on website from google

Discussion in 'Tech Support' started by World, Jan 31, 2008.

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  1. World

    World Oberstgruppenführer DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Jan 31, 2008 #1
    Hi everyone, and special greetings to Raven who I know is reading this.

    My problem is that I need google to not find a certain subdirectory of a website.

    If I remember correctly there was some way using metadata, but, surprisingly, google didn't help much ;)

    However, that would not be a very good solution, since it is a test directory and I'd like to be able to move the pages to the real folder without changes.

    Would .htaccess keep google away efficiently?

    Regards,
    o/
     
  2. Jon

    Jon The Demon Mayor Admin DLP Supporter

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    I usually just put a password on directories I don't want google to get access to, or keep the url off of webpages... Which I tried with the Dresden files but some cuntfuck decided they were gonna post the link and let google harvest it. =_=
     
  3. Guest_

    Guest_ Third Year

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    Jan 31, 2008 #3
    In your robots.txt
    User-agent: Googlebot*
    Disallow: /*mydirectory*
     
  4. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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  5. World

    World Oberstgruppenführer DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Many thanks to y'all :)