How do you de-index and prevent indexation of a whole domain?

[Martin_S]

I have parts of an online portal displaying in SERPs which it definitely shouldn't be. It's due to thoughtless developers but I need to have the whole portal's domain de-indexed and prevented from future indexing.

I'm not too tech savvy but how is this achieved? No index? Robots?

thanks

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi TCE,

There are two options in my opinion for this which are the best (as their are several other options including META robots etc):

1. Robots.txt: Exclude your portal via your robots.txt file.
2. HTTP Auth: Let your developers add HTTP Authentication so you have to log in to see the portal. Google won't be able to see the pages itself and so will de index them.

Hope this helps.

[SebastianCowie]

Fastest way to do it would be through a combination of Google Webmaster Tools and Robots.txt / noindex,nofollow meta tags.

Firstly if your domain hasn't been verified within GWT, go through that process. Then proceed with the remove URL request within GWT. (Image Attached)

You will need to upload a robots.txt and/or implement the noindex meta tag within the header of the pages you no longer want indexed.

Example Robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /offendingportal/

Example Robots Meta tag:

That should be enough to get rid of the offending content from within the SERPS and prevent it from being re-indexed.

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