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Roadhouse

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How do I avoid my webpage is being found by ex. Google?
Posted: 6 Jun 26, 02:09
 
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Hi.

I have inserted this <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> as seen in jAlbum001.jpg.

Is that all I have to do in the various jAlbums I have made? And is it right that the < and > is part of the code - or should it just be meta name="robots" content="noindex"?

If you look at jAlbum002.jpg you'll se that google finds my domain, guldberg-lassen.dk and another sub-jAlbum "Redningsaktioner - guldberg-lassen.dk".

I read somewhere, that the robots.txt file have to be removed som Google can crawl my site and when it 'see' the <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> then it will not include my page in their index.

So should the above be the solution?

Have a nice day :-)

Edited by: Roadhouse on 6 Jun 2026, 02:09
JeffTucker

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Re: How do I avoid my webpage is being found by ex. Google?
Posted: 6 Jun 26, 02:15   in response to: Roadhouse in response to: Roadhouse
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Your page code needs to include the angle brackets:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
What you currently have on your site is actually showing as text on the page!

But robots.txt and the "meta robots" entries are just a suggestion to the search bots. It doesn't actively block them - nothing does that. Google tends to respect it, but once your page is indexed, it will keep showing up in searches for quite a long time.
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