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« on: January 20, 2008, 07:18:32 AM »
I would like to be removed from search engines somehow. I didn't ask for submission but probably was done some other way. I was told to remove robots.txt from my public_htm folder but I don't see it there. I checked with cpanel and ftp and nothing. Is there a way of finding that file or maybe different method so search engine will not show my site?
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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2008, 07:36:22 AM »
The trick is not removing robots.txt file but actually to create it. To exclude your entire site from being indexed, the robots.txt file should read:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2008, 06:31:41 PM »
Ok, I did that, in public_html folder.
Since search engines already have my site info  how do they remove that info?
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« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2008, 05:02:41 AM »
Here is Google's official answer to the issue.  Now that you have done that, you will just need to wait for Google's search results to refresh.  Depending on your topic and search this might take a while - but if you have done that, then you will be delisted eventually since no search robots will be able to crawl your content.
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« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2008, 01:07:48 PM »

Thanks for the info
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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2008, 08:16:12 AM »
If you have one page your fine being up; you might also want to consider doing a 301 (or maybe a 302 is better?) redirect away from all the rest of your content. Otherwise, you'll probably be in the index for a while.

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