Now a days every one is praying that “Oh God let Google index and cache my web pages”˳ The article I am going to write is just the reverse of what common man or woman thinks˳ Many time we need to hide our data from Search Engines˳ Some times we will be shocked that the information which we kept secretly in our site present in Google cache˳ That will remain there even if I remove it from my web page˳ So anyone can easily view it which I removed from my site˳ To prevent Google or any major web sites from making cache links of our site follow the tips provided below˳
Cache links are created when a spider visit our web page and create a snapshot of it˳ According to Google words “This “cached” version allows a webpage to be retrieved for your end users if the original page is ever unavailable (due to temporary failure of the web server)”˳ The cached page will look exactly same as how the page looks at the time of spider visit˳ To see the cached links of your website follow the command below˳
cache:your URL
On Google search box you can type the command “cache: “and the URL you want to see˳ The same command is valid for MSN search also˳ The cached page will change when spider’s next visit on your site˳ To exclude Google spiders from caching your web page follow the steps below˳
Exclusion of a page from cache:
1˳ Tell spiders to not archive links using robots˳txt
To exclude a web page from caching we need to use the following meta tag on our website˳ The tag is:
Note: Please ignore the symbol “|” from the tag above˳
This tag prevents all spiders from archiving the web page˳
2˳ Setting access permissions
We can set a user name and password for a page to view it˳ Search Engine spiders cannot log on to a page using user name and password˳ So it cannot index that page so your web page will never indexed in cached link list˳
The steps provided above will help to prevent spiders from being caching our web page˳ But for already cached webpage what we can do?
Remove a cached link
To remove an already indexed link from cached list we can send a request to Google from Google webmaster tool˳ To perform this follow the steps below˳
1˳ Log on to Google webmaster tools
2˳ Click on Tools
3˳ Click on remove URL
4˳ Click on new removal requests
5˳ Enter the URL which is already cached to remove˳
In a nutshell the robots˳txt file on your web server is very important˳ If you edit it without knowing the usage of syntax your site may not indexed well on Search Engine˳ In the reverse to un-index a site link also robots˳txt file is very important˳
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