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    • Prime85
      Prime85 last edited by

      Hey Everyone,

      I'm looking for some help regarding my website.

      I have multiple pages on my site that are password protected (we only give the password to potential clients)....

      Somehow, when doing a google search, i found a directory that has successfully scraped and pulled all of the information from the password protected pages and is displaying this info on their site...

      This is very bad for us as obviously this information is critical and not intended to be shared with the rest of the world

      Does anyone have any advice on how to prevent my password protected pages from being scraped/crawled?

      Thanks!

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      • TakeshiYoung
        TakeshiYoung last edited by

        How are you implementing the password protection? What website is it for? It's hard to say anything without knowing the specifics.

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        • Christy-Correll
          Christy-Correll last edited by

          Hi there, as Takeshi said, it is difficult to answer this without more information (especially how you are implementing password protection on these pages.) Are you able to offer any information at all, or did you figure this out? We'd love an update so we can help you resolve this. 🙂

          Christy

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