In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains how password protection, blocking crawling, and blocking indexing are three ways to prevent a website from showing up in search engines, while keeping them accessible. This question was submitted by Aman Gautamr. Thank you!
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thanks i was pretty tired of seeing the tensai bakabon bigcartoon wiki page when searching about that anime
What if I want a website to never come up when I'm searching. Like if I absolutely hate a website and never want to see it again.
Why would it be hidden, doesn't it mean scam or what?
Just wanna ask, when you said, blocking by using a password, you mean that all other files/routes that required authentication, will not get indexed by the search engine, isn't?
Following Google's advice seems to be the best way to keep a site hidden in the SERPs.
Thank you …
Best approach is using GSC for delete index for 6month.
Hi, John. I really need your help. Could you please advise me on how to speed up website crawling, as Google hasn't crawled my website some pages in three to four months? Could you please tell me why this is happening and how I can resolve it?
Love it !
But why we hide websites??
Yes tank you information,im Hardyan channel-is indonesia
What about duplicate content problems?
Hey, John.
Perhaps it would be usefull to note that one shouldn’t both disallow and noindex the same page, right?
Very useful, thank you 🙂
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How add password??