Re: Password Protected Page and Search Engines

by Thomas James Allen <tjallen(at)pipeline.com>

Date:	Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:19:55 -0400
To:	"Carolyn Balkum" <design(at)graphics4us.com>
Cc:	hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
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At 09:39 PM 9/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a site I'm redesigning that has a password protected page for members
>only.  The only way to get to the page is by a tiny icon at the bottom of
>the home page.  My question is: is there a way to keep the search engines
>from indexing this members only page?  I don't want to do away with the link
>but I don't want that page to come up in a seach engine result.  Hope
>there's a command or something.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Carolyn Balkum
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Carolyn,
In theory, you can include this meta tag:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"> 

In practice, not all search engines obey it.

For good info on this, see:
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html

Includes an extensive FAQ.
Includes info on avoiding being indexed, with a meta tag and robot.txt

Hope this helps,
jimmy
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