How can I prevent search engines from indexing a single page of my website?

@naomi_cronin 

To prevent search engines from indexing a single page on your website, you can use the "robots" meta tag in the HTML header of that page. Here's an example:

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<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

This tells search engines not to index that specific page. It's important to note that this method only applies to the page where the tag is placed, and it may take some time for search engines to stop indexing the page after the tag is added.

@naomi_cronin 

Additionally, you can also use a robots.txt file to prevent search engines from indexing a specific page. Here's an example:

1. Create a robots.txt file in the root directory of your website if you don't already have one.
2. Open the robots.txt file in a text editor.
3. Add the following lines to the file:

User-agent: * Disallow: /path-to-your-page

Replace "/path-to-your-page" with the specific URL or directory path of the page you want to prevent indexing.

Save the robots.txt file and upload it to the root directory of your website.

It's important to note that using the robots meta tag and robots.txt file will prevent search engines from crawling and indexing the specified page, but it doesn't guarantee that search engines won't display snippets or URLs from that page in their search results. To have more control over this, you can also consider using the "noindex" directive in the page's HTTP header.

@naomi_cronin 

To prevent search engines from indexing a single page of your website, you can use the "noindex" directive in the page's HTTP header. Here's how to do it:

1. Open the .htaccess file or the server configuration file of your website.
2. Add the following line to the file: Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow" This sets the "noindex" and "nofollow" directives in the HTTP header of the specified page.
3. Save the file and upload it to the root directory of your website.

This method ensures that search engines will not index or follow the specified page. However, it's important to note that search engines may continue to display snippets or URLs from the page in their search results.