# You have several options, but it depends on the search engine. Also, there are some unscrupulous search engine adminstrators that totally disregard # the protocols that have been set up to prevent search engines from indexing web pages. Basically, if you absolutely do not want a web page to be # indexed, you either have to limit access via userid/password, on-campus use only, or simply not place the page in your web account. # For external search engines such as Google, Alta Vista, or Lycos: # add the meta tag between the tags of your web pages. # place a "robots.txt" file in the /www/ folder of your account. You can view/copy NMC's "robots.txt" file and edit it to fit your needs. # rename old file you are not using now but wish to make available later with some other file suffix, e.g., "filename.bak" or "filename.tmp"; # This is limited to URLs; absolute paths won't work. # See http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html for details. User-agent: * Disallow: /