How to get a domain un-indexed by search engines

Question

Hello all,

I have a domain with a loto of indexed pages, I use this one as a online test domain. I understand that I should test it on a intranet or somewhat, but in time Google indexed a few websites which are not relavent anymore.

Does anyone know how to get a domain totlally unindexed from the most search engines?

Answer 1

Place a robots.txt file in the root directory of your webpage. It can be used to control how much access search engine spiders have to your content. You can specify certain areas of your site off limits to indexing, on a directory-by-directory basis.

Answer 2

There is a couple things you can do.

1. Set up a restrictive robots.txt file
2. Password protect the domain root
3. Request removal directly from SEs
4. If you have a static ip and you are the only one accessing the site, you can simply deny access to any ips other than yours.