how to prevent my page FROM GOOGLE INDEXING?

[kerthivasan]

hi guys.

how can i prevent my page from indexing it on google?

i don't want my web page to be seen by others.

i don't want google to index my page.

is there any way?

[ahref]

Write this tag on head part of your html page
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

You can also use robots.txt file for exclusion of this page, but above tag is better.

[kerthivasan]

thanks

[hailgautam]

yehan pe log index karane ko mar rahen hain aur tume indexation nahi chahiye?

[mehulved]

Sometimes there are pages which are supposed to be confidential and you surely wouldn't like them to be indexed.
But, if what I've read is right, robots.txt file can only protect against search engine bots but rouge bots will ignore it and can collect it for wrong usage.

[ahref]

Sometimes there are pages which are supposed to be confidential and you surely wouldn't like them to be indexed.
But, if what I've read is right, robots.txt file can only protect against search engine bots but rouge bots will ignore it and can collect it for wrong usage.
robots.txt is for those, who follows it, if it is rogue bot definately it will not follow, moreover if we exclude some files or directory in robots.txt rogue bot or rogue human will definately visit it. Robots.txt is one of the first file which people see, to find which files or directory contain sensitive information in a website.

[Choto Cheeta]

now if you can have the link of that page secrete to only to the user, chances are BOTs will never find the page :)

[kerthivasan]

what do u mean by BOT's?

[mehulved]

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

[kalpik]

You can also put a .htaccess password on that directory ;)

[aryayush]

Though you should use the precautions mentioned by the other members, I am sure no one will ever visit your page if you do not mention it anywhere. :D

[piyush gupta]

if its so confidential why put it on net

why not send it as attachment to limited users