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dodgson

Hey guys and gals, I was just wondering if anyone new of a way of hiding a folder in my web directory, so that google wouldn't index it, but I would still be able to create direct links to html files to send to clients.

The problem is that I'm a web/graphic designer and I have been putting test sites in my own web directory, but unfortunately one of my clients noticed their site in a google search today and it was the version behind my site.

I'm not sure what best practice would be, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

ikthius

have a robots.txt file

put it in your root level and have something like this in it

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /htdocs/
Disallow: /whatever other directory you wish/

or an .htaccess file

Soh Tanaka

what ikthius said, and add a 'noindex' to the header of that directory page:

<html>
<head>
 <meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\" />
 <title>Don't index this page</title>
</head>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noindex

dodgson

thank you both. I appreciate your help.

dodgson

what does the * mean in User-agent: * . Just interested.

TheDoc

"dodgson" said:
what does the * mean in User-agent: * . Just interested.

It usually means "anything", so I assume it does in this case as well. "User-agent: any" would be my guess.

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