How tell google to ignore a page?

[leonard55]

To tell google to not index a page, where do i go?
i thought it would be located at: rightclick, webproperties, then page
Searched help and forum for seo, sitemap, google, but not finding
This is something i would think would be popular, but apparently not since it is difficult to find
Thanks. LeonardSlates.com

[Acorn]

To tell google to not index a page, where do i go?
i thought it would be located at: rightclick, webproperties, then page
Searched help and forum for seo, sitemap, google, but not finding
This is something i would think would be popular, but apparently not since it is difficult to find
Thanks. LeonardSlates.com

Leonard, have a read through https://varvy.com/robottxt.html.

If you need to modify a robots.txt file, Xara cannot do it for you.
Google "robots.txt generator free".

Acorn

[nazf355]

To tell google to not index a page, where do i go?
i thought it would be located at: rightclick, webproperties, then page
Searched help and forum for seo, sitemap, google, but not finding
This is something i would think would be popular, but apparently not since it is difficult to find
Thanks. LeonardSlates.com

Create a new text file and into it enter something similar

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

This will 'ask' all search engines not to index any page of your site

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /

This will 'ask' Google not to index any page of your site

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /terms.htm

This will 'ask' Google not to index your page called terms.htm

Save the file as robots.txt


I say 'ask' because a robots.txt file is a simply a request it is upto the respective search engines to comply or not.

Once you have the file, you need to upload it to your root directory, normally the place where the index.htm (Home page) is, the best way to do this is to create a new layer called Design add a placeholder press Ctrl+Alt+Sht+A to attach the file, then make the design layer not visible so it is uploaded but nothing is show.

[leonard55]

very disappointed with Xara.
Serif Webplus 8 has a simple checkbox to tell google to ignore an individual page.
I want my site indexed, but some pages i do not.
Editing code makes me nervous, i have never done that. I do not even like to edit my registry.
Thanks guys. This may make me decide to not use xara, even though i really like some of the features. LeonardSlates.com

[Acorn]

Leonard, sorry to hear this but editing a text file is not writing code.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

Leonard - You can make a feature request for the next version in the Dear Xara Forum. http://www.talkgraphics.com/forumdis...p?56-Dear-Xara

[nazf355]

Leonard, sorry to hear this but editing a text file is not writing code.

Acorn

I would say it is, after all you are sending a command to a robot, code is essentially a set of instructions which is exactly what a robots.txt file is.

[Acorn]

I would say it is, after all you are sending a command to a robot, code is essentially a set of instructions which is exactly what a robots.txt file is.

Disagree. Semantically, it is structured text as is, for example, XML (stands for EXtensible Markup Language). Xara applications produce structured HTML to display objects. Xara designing is not coding. Both examples are levels of abstraction well above coding.

The robots.txt is not sent it is fetched by a robot engine when it decides to go looking. It is akin to a "Do not disturb" sign on your door.

Acorn

[nazf355]

Disagree. Semantically, it is structured text as is, for example, XML (stands for EXtensible Markup Language). Xara applications produce structured HTML to display objects. Xara designing is not coding. Both examples are levels of abstraction well above coding.

The robots.txt is not sent it is fetched by a robot engine when it decides to go looking. It is akin to a "Do not disturb" sign on your door.

Acorn

XML provides no instructions it's just about describing information, whereas a robots.txt file provides a directive for search engines via a set of user created instructions and where you have instructions you have algorithm and where you have an algorithm you have code. But I think we could go on about this for a while so let's just agree that I am right

[Acorn]

1. Retract last Post.
2. Admit Acorn's right.
3. End posting in this Thread.