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    • Mikey008
      Mikey008 last edited by

      Hi i want to block web archive/wayback machine from indexing my site and creating a record of it on their database.

      Any ideas on how to do this?

      Cheers,
      Superpak

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      • davebuts
        davebuts last edited by

        You can block Wayback Machine from crawling and creating a record of your site by adding the following to your Robots.txt file:

        User-agent: ia_archiver
        Disallow: /

        This will not only stop new records from being created but also stop people viewing what had previously been indexed by Wayback Machine.

        More information about this can be found here: https://archive.org/about/exclude.php

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