Title: Hiding from google
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Hiding from google

 *  [rantamies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rantamies/)
 * (@rantamies)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-from-google/)
 * Hi all smartones,
 * I would like to protect a folder, so that it can not be found by google or any
   other search engines. So would like to hide [http://www.page.com/downloads](http://www.page.com/downloads)
   folder. what is best way to do that? Is robots.txt only option? and if so, do
   you have good advice available for this?
 * VIlle

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 *  [positivelyrandy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/positivelyrandy/)
 * (@positivelyrandy)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-from-google/#post-3196681)
 * If you have a WordPress site, I might suggest memberwing-x plugin. It is free
   and easy to install and very secure. It will cost you after 10 members. If there
   are no links to your downloads folder, then there are no ways it can be tracked
   by robots, etc. The way to protect it is with an .htaccess file inside the folder.

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 * [robots.txt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/robots-txt/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-from-google/#post-3196681)
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