Hiding Web Pages from Search Engines

At times, you may not want search engines to use its programs, often called spiders or robots, to catalog your Web page. To turn away these programs, you can add some code to the <head> section of your Web page. You need to repeat this procedure for each page you want to hide.

In the <head> section, type or copy and paste the following:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />

Upon encountering this line of code, the search engine's program is supposed to ignore the page and not catalog it. Remember, though, that anything published to the Web is available for public use, and this adding this code won't protect your privacy. If you want to shield your document from prying eyes, you need to add password protection or to find a more secure means of distribution.