Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Va.

How do I keep my page from being indexed?

Two options to exclude pages from the VCU Search Engine are:

Exclude a single page

In each HTML file you want to exclude, add the following between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags:

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex, follow">

Doing so will allow HtDig to still follow links to other documents, but will prevent this document from being put into the index itself.

Exclude a single page and all links off of that page:

If you don't want htdig to follow your links from that page then insert this line of code:

        <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex, nofollow">

This will prevent the linked pages from being indexed as well as that page.

(See HtDig's information on Recognized META information for more details.)