ARBI - Blocking SE's with .htaccess

[trigatch4]

I've searched the forums but can't seem to find the code to put in .htaccess that will block search engines from indexing the site. Can anybody help?

Thanks

 

[SimpleSEO]

First of all, why do you want this ?

 

[trigatch4]

So the search engines don't index my arbi sites and I can just send all the traffic from 7search. Man, you need to hang out here longer.

SEO is not the golden bullet, buddy. There's more than 1 way to skin a pussy.

 

[sebastya]

don't you do it in robots.txt?

 

[SimpleSEO]

Yes, this would be robots.txt

 

[trigatch4]

Think I found it, can somebody confirm?

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

 

[Jdog]

That works to an extent. Yahoo doesn't necessarily listen and indexed my arbi sites. but I got a stray visitor last week that made me $1.50.

 

[illusion]

SEO is not the golden bullet, buddy. There's more than 1 way to skin a pussy.

Definately

 

[trigatch4]

alright, so i'm still answerless... anybody?

 

[illusion]

alright, so i'm still answerless... anybody?

You could cloak the search engines and send them to Google, then you will get a fake PR but it doesn't really matter

 

[trigatch4]

My point is... this shit is above my head. I need a simple: "copy and paste this into robots.txt" or whatever.

 

[illusion]

How to restrict bot access - PGVWiki

 

[trigatch4]

EXACTLY what I was looking for.

Thank you
+Rep Added

 

[Michel Z.]

Thanks a lot Illusion, your link will help many arbi people here!!

 

[engaged]

i'm not 100% clear why you want to block them, it can only help in my viewpoint?

 

[sebastya]

sorry i would help more if i could but i'm a no0b when it comes to robots.txt

 

[boena]

I'm not sure wether im doing it right or not but i only block the SE's from seeing my css-files. This way i can have several links in a DIV of the html-page and then chose display: none, in the css file. This way i can avoid smartpricing... Is there any better way of doing this that i don't know of?