SEO Tycoon

**http** · 12-07-2006, 12:04 AM

What is the standard procedure for hiding content from Google? We are evidently moving to Google as our enterprise search engine for our Government intranet. The site I administer has some content that I do not want coming up in search results. How do I make Google ignore it? I am on a Linux box, if that makes any difference.

**zappanet** · 12-07-2006, 04:05 AM

You should add noindex command in your html code for the part of information you don't want to be seen.

**stOx** · 12-07-2006, 09:49 AM

Also use a robots.txt in your root directory

Code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /path/to/file/to/ignore.php
Disallow: /path/to/directory/to/ignor

**ADAM Web Design** · 12-07-2006, 12:11 PM

As a third measure, you can put rel="nofollow" on any links you don't want traversed if you're feeling extremely paranoid (and since it's government, paranoia is probably the default setting.

<a href="your-page-here" rel="nofollow">Link</a>