Knowing that this is not a question really related to Winhost; might be you will help me anyway! my web site (asgbarbaroux.org) is up fine - thanks for the support! But now I realise, that I get all kind of unwanted google hits when searching for my web site! I'm not familiar at all how this works - I remember vaguely it has to do with meta-tags ... How can I control this, and if possible, eliminate some of them?! All I would like that only the WEB site is found when googling. Thanks for your advise, documentation hints etc. ed
You want to implement a robots.txt file. Meta tags will not keep search engine spiders away from your site. It's a bit cumbersome to only allow the search engines to crawl your root directory. You have to list all the other directories in your account that you don't want them to crawl and set them to disallow. That site will explain everything.
I'm not quite sure exactly what you are asking. If you need more information on meta tags try reading this link. http://searchenginewatch.com/2167931 If you want to get your domain name and/or website displayed on Google when then type a specific key word you really need to check with Google themselves. Each search engine is different and each will have their own criteria on how you will get listed. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291
Hi Ray, Hank, all I want to do is to prevent, that when e.g. googling using my domain name, to prevent getting even hits of single pages of my site! will certainly get into meta-tag and the robot.txt business PS: in fact, I wouldn't even mind if the site is NOT coming up at all on the search engines! thanks for your time ed
Hmmm, thats the first time someone asked that so sorry for my confusion. First off you can set the meta tag so that search engines do not index your site. <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> Additionally you can setup a robot.txt file and have it so that it prevents robots from accessing your site. User-agent: * Disallow: / Now, keep in mind that some search engines can still index your site regardless on what you do. So, my personal recommendation if you don't want your site to be pulled up, is to setup a temporary redirect script (302) and have a condition if the call is made to your domain name to be redirected somewhere else. That way you can still pull it up with your secondary URL.
