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Is there a way to stop Google from indexing a site?

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Developer Avatar asked Dec 23 '08 23:12

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robots.txt

User-agent: * Disallow: / 

this will block all search bots from indexing.

for more info see: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=40360

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UnkwnTech Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 05:09

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