How to Stop Search engine crawling For Blogger and WordPress
How to Stop Search engine crawling For Blogger and WordPress.
The main traffic sources for most blogs and websites are search engines such as google, bing, yahoo, ask.com and so on. After a few months, when you post a post on your website, you can start to see your website on the results.
But in some cases, such as private blogs and private websites, you don’t like seeing your website results. WordPress and blogger therefore have the setting to stop the search engine scanner. Let’s see that…
How to stop search engine crawler on blogger:
- Go to blogger.com and log in to the dashboard of your blog.
- Now scroll down and go to the Basic settings page, then you find privacy settings.
- click Edit. You see two parameters now 1. Let your blog find search engines? Add to our listings your blog? You see no option for both settings here as default.
- Now you’re changing both to yes. This means that you blogger won’t index through a search engine. Your public blog has been converted into a private blog.
How to stop search engine crawler to WordPress?
- Login to your WordPress admin panel.
- Go to your setting there you see some setting such as general, writing, Reading, discussion etc. you choose Reading setting.
- In reading setting you see an option is called “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” then put check on the option.
- That’s all you stopped search engine crawling your website.
When this box is checked, WordPress adds this line to your website’s header:
<meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex,follow’ />
WordPress also modifies your site’s robots.txt file and add these lines to it:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
How to stop search engine crawler to HTML Websites?
To stop searching your HTML site, you should add a meta tag on the header below. You can also stop the search engine specified by adding a particular name.
For all crawler bots:
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”>
For specific bots: Example for google
<meta name=”googlebot” content=”noindex”>
For HTML links
<a href=”yourpageul.html” rel=”nofollow”>Link to private page</a>
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