Prevent website from showing up on Google?

Marketing
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I am designing a website for someone. It’s on my server under with a string (if that’s the correct term), under my Domain Name. However, it is not showing up on Google and we don’t want that yet.

Is there a way to prevent the spider’s and robots from picking up this person’s website? I am using his name on for the folder name. I will have to change that. Anything else?
Thanks

2

You can use a robots.txt file for this.

  1. Create a robots text file and add the following code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

The first line translates as: User-agent: any robot

The second line reads: Disallow all directories that come after http://mysite.com/ from being targeted by robots.

  1. Place the robots.txt file in the top level of your webserver.
3

Thank you! Can you explain what you mean by "top level of my webserver?
Thanks

4

I mean your root directory, sorry.

5

Are you a website developer or do you just do design? If you’re developing sites, it might be a good idea to familiarise yourself with the different directory structures on web servers.

6

I’m primarily a designer. However, I want to be a developer.
I will start reading about the directory structures. Thanks.

7

No worries, I was in the same boat but over the years had no choice but to pick this stuff up. Lot’s of stuff about URLs too.

8

The robots.txt and .htaccess files come in handy at times like this!