[shmerek]

Is there anyway to stop googlebots from indexing your site etc?

[OSX Abuser]

I think Google's Bots will respect the 'robots text' tags.
Just make sure you have those tags in your site.
Heck you could probably e-mail them and ask how you can avoid having your site Googled.

[Millennium]

http://www.robotstxt.org

Google respects robots.txt. Unfortunately, many spambots don't, and those may be what you're really after.

[Raman]

Originally posted by OSX Abuser:
I think Google's Bots will respect the 'robots text' tags.
Just make sure you have those tags in your site.
Heck you could probably e-mail them and ask how you can avoid having your site Googled.

It's robots.txt, not tags. Well, you could put tags in your pages for robots to not index.

I'd do both.

Remember, bots don't index your site voluntairily... they don't have to respect the robots.txt file..

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by Raman:
It's robots.txt, not tags. Well, you could put tags in your pages for robots to not index.

I'd do both.

Remember, bots don't index your site voluntairily... they don't have to respect the robots.txt file..

And if you're really annoyed with them, you could modify your apache config to deny all requests from certain user agents with a string pattern matching the name of the particular robot(s) you wish to hide from. But that's a pretty heavy measure, only to be used if all else fails.