Keeping my site off of search engines.

[Haldrie]

I know all about the robots.txt file and I have one in the root of my site like I'm suppose to but all it seems to be doing is preventing search engines from downloading info from my site but not preventing them from indexing it. I've tried to find a way to contact Google to get my site removed but I can't find any contact info that will help. Every menu on the phone number I found keeps refering me to their site. That's not the worst of it. A search robot labled Echo! on my site stats seems to be ignoring the robots.txt file and is downloading data in the KB off of my web site (80KB total last checked) while all the other robots that have hit my site haven't even downloaded 200bytes. What do I have to do to keep my site a secret before it's too late?

[whoopiecoushion]

http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/h...ing-your-pages
http://www.antezeta.com/avoid-search...-indexing.html

these web pages might be of help... i found em with google.... so is it realy a bad idea to let a spyder/crawler have a peek at your page? what is your page anyways?

[Leerz25]

I know all about the robots.txt file and I have one in the root of my site like I'm suppose to but all it seems to be doing is preventing search engines from downloading info from my site but not preventing them from indexing it. I've tried to find a way to contact Google to get my site removed but I can't find any contact info that will help. Every menu on the phone number I found keeps refering me to their site. That's not the worst of it. A search robot labled Echo! on my site stats seems to be ignoring the robots.txt file and is downloading data in the KB off of my web site (80KB total last checked) while all the other robots that have hit my site haven't even downloaded 200bytes. What do I have to do to keep my site a secret before it's too late?

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[Haldrie]

Well I have my robots.txt file set to disallow all robots from the site however I checked out those links and the meta noindex tag might do the trick at keeping search engines from indexing my site.

[Leerz25]

btw I got another idea, block / disallow all pages and folders except for one WITH LOTS AND LOTS OF TAGS about your website

[Haldrie]

....I think you missed the point. The idea was to keep my site from being indexed. As in to NOT let it show up on search engines. I'm just not ready for that kind of traffic. The meta tag seems to be doing the trick as I'm already seeing some indexes disappearing off of Google.

[Leerz25]

ahh, right I overlooked it, disallowing all folders should do it, [i think]
if you really wanna kick out indexing from search engines, you can make a request [i think] from google

[kinda like what sharman did with klite] delete all references pointing to klite

[Borman]

You seem paranoid. You wont get that kind of traffic overnight, trust me

[Haldrie]

I'm not paranoid I just don't want search engine hits to be part of my traffic. Right now the only traffic I need on it are for the pics I host and from links in my sig and profile.

[Leerz25]

I'm not paranoid I just don't want search engine hits to be part of my traffic. Right now the only traffic I need on it are for the pics I host and from links in my sig and profile.

actually as an individual, you really won't get much hits from indexing engines.

even if the site has stayed for 2-3 years, if you blocked those sites, really.
you can have a webspace with just files and no pages [kinda like what I have] I also store stuff [siggies/avatars] and docs there as well.

You wont get that kind of traffic overnight, trust me

indeed