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How Do I Prevent A PDF File From Being Indexed By Search Engines? by Owolabi61841733: 1:28am On Nov 24, 2022 |
How do I prevent a PDF file from being indexed by search engines? To hide it from Yahoo, Bing, Google, Yandex, Baidu (and other search engines who use it) you will need to create or edit the robots.txt file in the main folder of your website. Add a line to exclude that document. For more about robots.txt you can find at The Web Robots Pages. You can even exclude a complete directory. The procedure for creating a robots.txt file ain’t that difficult. You just create a TXT file that has the following fields: 'User-agent:' – in this line you identify the crawler in question; 'Disallow:' – 2 or more lines that instruct the specified crawlers not to access certain parts of a site. Example file: User-agent: * Disallow: /pdf-folder/ Or follow this second me method When you are ready you can audit with tools like Screaming Frog whether the files are excluded from indexing. If you are worried files are currently found on Google you can use www.pdfsearch.org. This tool actually uses Google but only searches for PDF documents. You will see this option of public or private while posting a post on your website in WordPress. Set it to private so that google can't find the page along with its content like you just said PDF file. So, Google will not index those private pages. These pages will only have access to the person who has those page url. They can visit directly that page. The same way you do for any online resource: by excluding it from your sitemap.xml and additionally disallowing in robots.txt. That is, if you control the resource where the file is posted. If not, you can only encrypt the file’s contents and metadata in a tool like Acrobat Pro. Visit to read more http://toasdev.com.ng/2022/11/24/468/ 1 Like |
Re: How Do I Prevent A PDF File From Being Indexed By Search Engines? by Accrdtcollctn: 10:14pm On Nov 28, 2022 |
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