# 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: /guestbook/ Disallow: /guestbook.shtml Disallow: /guestbook1.html Disallow: /guestbook2.html Disallow: /guestbook3.html Disallow: /guestbook4.html Disallow: /guestbook5.html Disallow: /guestbook6.html Disallow: /guestbook7.html Disallow: /guestbook8.html Disallow: /guestbook9.html Disallow: /guestbook10.html Disallow: /guestbook11.html Disallow: /guestbook12.html Disallow: /guestbook13.html Disallow: /guestbook14.html Disallow: /guestbook15.html Disallow: /guestbook16.html Disallow: /guestbook17.html Disallow: /guestbook18.html Disallow: /guestbook19.html Disallow: /guestbook20.html Disallow: /guestbook21.html Disallow: /guestbook22.html Disallow: /guestbook23.html Disallow: /guestbook24.html Disallow: /guestbook25.html Disallow: /guestbook26.html Disallow: /guestbook27.html Disallow: /guestbook28.html Disallow: /guestbook29.html Disallow: /guestbook30.html Disallow: /guestbook31.html Disallow: /guestbook32.html Disallow: /guestbook33.html Disallow: /guestbook34.html Disallow: /guestbook35.html Disallow: /guestbook36.html Disallow: /guestbook37.html Disallow: /guestbook38.html Disallow: /guestbook39.html Disallow: /guestbook40.html Disallow: /guestbook41.html Disallow: /guestbook42.html Disallow: /guestbook43.html Disallow: /guestbook44.html Disallow: /guestbook45.html Disallow: /guestbook46.html Disallow: /guestbook47.html Disallow: /guestbook48.html Disallow: /guestbook49.html Disallow: /guestbook50.html Disallow: /guestbook51.html Disallow: /guestbook52.html Disallow: /guestbook53.html Disallow: /guestbook54.html Disallow: /guestbook55.html Disallow: /guestbook56.html