Posted 2 years ago #
Hi
I have a pdf files that I can host on my or other sites.
I don't want Google to index these files and no one should
find the when searching use Google or others.
I am aware of various ways to protect a post but that's not what I want.
The idea is that I will have a page (with no links to it) from my blog. On this page will be a link to the pdf's.
Only people who have the link from me (and not from Google) can download the file.
possible solutions:
1) have all the pdf files in one folder. add a robots.txt file to that folder informing all search engines not to index any content in that folder or folders beneath it.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40360
http://www.askapache.com/seo/seo-with-robotstxt.html
2) since you wish to control access to those PDF files, password protect the folder in which they are located. Google for "password protect folder"
Posted 2 years ago #
Hi stvwlf Thanks for the solution. I have decided to go for an online solution http://www.box.net as my files are not indexed.
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