If you want to have a private website for family, friends, members or whatever, how can you keep it off the search engines or as private as possible? Comments, ideas, suggestions appreciated.
You can dissallow the spiders from search engines from crawling your site this way, there are better way but they also get rather complecated depending on how good you are with internet coding and how good your internet knowledge is.
You can also make it a password protected site real easy using the .htaccess file or from your cpanel. All visitors will see a popup box asking for a usename and password. All users can share the same name and password.
Creating a robots.txt file will keep all robots that honor the file from spidering the site. But not all robots will honor the file. That major search engines should.
That's why you'd also want to password protect the site.
You can also make it a password protected site real easy using the .htaccess file or from your cpanel. All visitors will see a popup box asking for a usename and password. All users can share the same name and password.
You're right! create a password for your site if you want to make it private
