Ways to block your Site from Google – Use of Meta NoIndex Tag

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Smart Traffic SEO Tip #20 – Ways to block your Site from Google – Use of Meta NoIndex Tag

Yesterday we discussed about blocking a site with the use of robots.txt file. Another method to prevent all robots from indexing a page of your site is to place the following meta tag into the section of that specific page’s source code:

The moment Google see the meta tag above, it will drop the page from search result even if other sites are linking to it. Hence, implementing this in all of your site’s pages will definitely block the whole site from Google. This method is actually useful if you don’t have a root access to your server since it allows you to control access of your site on a page-by-page basis.