Are the Privacy Settings 100% guaranteed to stop search engines?

  • Resolved shatters

    (@shatters)


    12 years, 7 months ago

    Hello all,

    I have a private site that absolutely must not appear in Google or Bing etc. I have enabled the Privacy Settings to “block search engines but allow normal visitors”: however, someone has suggested to me that this might not be 100% effective.

    Is it? Is there something else (a plugin maybe) that I should/could also do?

    The site will be hosting file attachment that contain confidential information. I have read that to ensure security I should make the uploads folder password protected. Does anyone have any advice on how best to do this?

    Any help greatly appreciated.

    Cheers
    Matt

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    It will only work for the engines that honour the nofollow, noindex tags/instruction.

    Thread Starter shatters

    (@shatters)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for the response Esmi.

    Can you help re: creating a password to the uploads folder?

    tomaltman

    (@tomaltman)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    Spiders and bot cannot “look” into your server’s folder structure unless you have allow access to that from the server – the only thing spiders and bots can “see” are files with a link to them.

    So, as long as there is not a link to the file you are speaking of, then you should be fine.

    If this is truly confidential information – it may be better to upload password protected PDF’s (or some password protected file) to the site, which would be much more secure.

    Does that make sense?
    🙂 tom

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    I agree that password protecting the file themselves is the best way to protect this data.

    Thread Starter shatters

    (@shatters)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks guys

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