Preventing Site from Being Indexed by Search Engines

Question

How can I prevent Google and other search engines from indexing my website?

Answer 1

robots.txt directives in your /

Answer 2

Create a robots.txt file in your site root with the following content:

# robots.txt for yoursite

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Search engines (and most robots in general) will respect the contents of this file. You can put any number of Disallow: /path lines for robots to ignore. More details at robotstxt.org.