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  • July 15, 2013 at 2:07 am #50743
    lorabrawley
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    I don't want some of my files to be able to be found through a search. How can I hade the files?

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    July 15, 2013 at 3:54 am #50752
    blogjunkie
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    Hi! You can create a robots.txt file which tells search engines what they can and cannot index. Create a plain text document (extension must be .txt) with Notepad or Textedit with the following:

    User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/private

    This tells search engines not to index anything that is in the /wp-content/uploads/private directory. Learn more about the robots.txt file here: http://www.robotstxt.org

    And check out Google's own robots.txt file for a live example: http://www.google.com/robots.txt

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