Security

[Don7777]

Hi, I am a relatively new website developer where I have created a family website. I would like to prevent the webcrawlers or search engine sites from indexing my site. In other words I do not want people to find my site through a search. Is there an html command that I can use to do this? I have heard something about norobots?

Also, should I force people to use a logon and password to my site? Appreciate any help.

[azlatin2000]

Use htaccess for the logon.

Add meta tags in the head to not allow search engines.

Add a robots.txt in the root of your site to disallow robots.

I'm sorry i can't say more but its 11:15 pm here and i need to sleep. I will give you links and specific examples tomorow moning. Don't say this was totally useless cuz its better than nothing and i am doing this voluntarily.

[DCElliott]

One handy thing you can use is a metatag generator - it creates the necessary metatags that document your site and provide instructions to search engine spiders about how to (or whether to) index your site. One example is here (http://www.indiabook.com/submit/metatag.html) but there are many others as well if you search on "metatag generator".

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[azlatin2000]

.htaccess Generator (Scroll Down To The Bottom):
http://developers.evrsoft.com/tools-htaccess-generator.shtml

Meta Tags (Although Not The Best One):
http://developers.evrsoft.com/metagen.shtml

Robots.txt:
http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html

The Meta Tags And Robots.txt Are Optional if you use .htaccess to protect it.