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12,679 views Nov 25, 2021 #AskGooglebot (formerly #AskGoogleWebmasters)

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dStcKClzM2k

Now conix must know yet another avenue of deceit has been closed to her here.

Thanks for mentioning the fact so many pages are invisible to internet searches. That i hadn't ever considered so clearly before.

Google Explains How To Hide A Website From Search Results

Google goes over three ways you can hide a website from search results, and which one you should use depending on your situation.

Matt G. Southern
SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern

November 24, 2021
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Google Explains How To Hide A Website From Search Results

Google says the best way to hide a website from search results is with a password, but there are other options you can consider.

This subject is spotlighted in the latest installment of the Ask Googlebot video series on YouTube.

Google’s John Mueller responds to a question asking how to prevent content from getting indexed in search, and whether that’s something websites are allowed to do.

“In short, yes you can,” Mueller says.

There are three ways to hide a website from search results:

* Use a password
* Block crawling
* Block indexing

Websites can either opt out of indexing altogether, or they can get indexed and hide content from Googlebot by using a password.

Blocking content from Googlebot is not against webmaster guidelines, as long as it’s blocked to users at the same time.

More - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-explains-how-to-hide-a-website-from-search-results/428341/#close .

Now conix must know yet another avenue of deceit has been closed to her here.