Is it possible to tell Google, or any search engine not to put my page in their searches? I want to upload a price list to my website, which I can only get to, but I dont want everyone to see it. How would I do it?

I guess I can password lock it.

You can,

- Password it
- Add a robots txt file saying DONT crawl it ( but may still end up on other engines )
- Give it a random name and dont link to it from anywhere. ( so they cant find it in the first place )

I thought putting rel="nofollow" attributes can prevent the SE bots not to crawl a particulars webpages.

Originally Posted by francis84

I thought putting rel="nofollow" attributes can prevent the SE bots not to crawl a particulars webpages.

No it doesn't!!


It suggests that the link it is applied to and ONLY that link should NOT pass "value".

It does NOT stop pages from being crawled and indexed!

You can put rel="no follow" link to do this. No Follow Link stops Google Crawler to index the page

Grrr, No follow does **** all.

You need a robots.txt or password protect it or DONT link to it from anywhere.

The problem with ANY method other than a password is, Yes google, yahoo, bing may follow your robots.txt but others wont.

nofollow means NOTHING when it comes to crawling pages.

As you said and I have said.

Password protection is probably your best bet ( short of not putting it online )

-Graham

you can block that page in Robots.txt and as lynxus said keep your page password protected.