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Posted by rahi
rahi
4,714 Points

Block search engine indexing for website

I'm in the process of wrapping up some lessons on 'How to Build a Website'.

Since the website I built while learning is not really ready for prime time, I don't want it indexed by search engines just yet.

In a Google Support article, I read that I can include a meta tag in the <head> section of the page.

That is, add the following:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

The code on all my HTML documents looks like this. 

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
    <title> Rahi Delvi | Accidental Tech </title>

Is this right?

2 Answers

Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points

Hi Rahi, yes that is correct, you may also want to add the noindex attribute too. Another method would be to add a robots.txt file in the root of your site which needs the following in it:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Have a look at the following link for more info.

rahi
rahi
4,714 Points
rahi
rahi
4,714 Points

Great. Thanks Gareth Redfern