How can I prevent Google and other search engines from indexing my website?
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How can I prevent Google and other search engines from indexing my website?
Create a
robots.txtfile in your site root with the following content:Search engines (and most robots in general) will respect the contents of this file. You can put any number of
Disallow: /pathlines for robots to ignore. More details at robotstxt.org.