Forum:Is there any way to stop pages apearing on Search Engines?

Is there anyway? Or is it inpossible? I heard you can somehow..


 * Search engines like Google, or the wiki's search? I don't think either are possible on Wikia.


 * was for google and stuff :) heard you could but i guess i heard wrong :)


 * There is a Magic Word that can make a page not appear in search engine results:  Just place it on any page that you don't want to show in search results. Gardimuer { ʈalk } 22:33, July 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * But that magic word only works for non-content namespaces, so placing it on pages in the main namespace does nothing. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 09:10, July 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hmm … according to mw:Help:Magic words, there is no limitation on the namespaces in which the magic word    works. The same at m:Help:Magic word. — Spike Toronto  11:21, July 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * It is disabled in the article namespace. Don't think that's documented anywhere though (see here for a Wikipedia page that confirms it). Edit: Found the documentation of it here. I gues you could try asking the Wikia staff to enable it in the Main namespace, or to edit the robots.txt directly. - Tjcool007 (Talk) 11:56, July 22, 2011 (UTC)

TJ, the MediaWiki link you gave does not say that it is disabled in that namespace. It merely shows an example array in which that is the case. If no array has been given, it defaults to the array indicated as a given wiki’s wikis content namespaces. If no such array is stated, then it will default to  . That’s two ifs beforehand, though. Also, while it may be disabled over at enWP, we still do not know if it is here. I’m going to add Staff needed to this page to get a definitive answer. I would like to know for certain since I use the   /    magic words. Thanks! — Spike Toronto  13:51, July 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * There's no need to ask staff for clarification. Put the magic word on a page, and see the HTML source of the article. If it sends a  on it, that means that the magic word is working for that namespace. If not, then that means that it's not working. Nothing more, nothing less. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 14:46, July 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * Great test! I’m going to go give it a try … Thanks! — Spike Toronto  15:55, July 22, 2011 (UTC)


 *  UPDATE : It works! I tried it on a page in the main/article namespace. No joy. Tried it again in a page in the User: namespace. Worked perfectly. Thanks CAP! — Spike Toronto  16:04, July 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * Can someone show me where this problem is happening? I know its all resolved and all but i would like to see where it happened, curiours.  TheBen10Mazter  (Talk -Blog -Contribs)  01:30, July 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * Ben, there was never a problem, per se. The original poster wanted to have certain pages on his/her wiki excluded from the results of various search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo!, etc. The discussion was then how to do it and can it be done for every namespace. — Spike Toronto  10:45, July 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Every time I hear about this I shiver. The problem is that these things were half baked to fix some stupid thing and later on they finally found out that they are worthless.
 * The information about it in wikipedia is very short but you can take a look at it to have a general idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Interpretation_by_the_individual_search_engines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noindex
 * Remember that having it on the page is only 10% of the job. The other 90% is done by the web crawlers and by the indexing software.
 * Given all that talk I have a question:
 * Does wikia's search feature honor those flags?