# Robots text to preclude indexing of one page only

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**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [April 27, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-text-to-preclude-indexing-of-one-page-only/38991 "2021-04-27T02:19:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![peglomaniac](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/peglomaniac/32/11510_2.png) [@peglomaniac](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/peglomaniac)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-text-to-preclude-indexing-of-one-page-only/38991/1 "2021-04-27T02:19:44Z")

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Hello,

I believe there is code to put in the Head section of any given page to preclude search engines from indexing it … is that so, and if so, what is the code?

TIA

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**Author:** ![Fuellemann](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/fuellemann/32/22871_2.png) [@Fuellemann](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Fuellemann)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 4:29am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-text-to-preclude-indexing-of-one-page-only/38991/2 "2021-04-27T04:29:27Z")

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Why don’t you just deselect the box “index” in the page settings?

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**Author:** ![peglomaniac](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/peglomaniac/32/11510_2.png) [@peglomaniac](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/peglomaniac)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-text-to-preclude-indexing-of-one-page-only/38991/3 "2021-04-27T12:41:54Z")

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Lol, so simple. Forgot about that entirely … thanks for the reminder.

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**Author:** ![dave](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dave/32/147_2.png) [@dave](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dave)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-text-to-preclude-indexing-of-one-page-only/38991/4 "2021-04-27T12:49:11Z")

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John Mu, Search Advocate at Google, mentions this topic every few months on Twitter ( @JohnMu ). He is very clear that robots.txt blocks crawling, but not necessarily indexing. The right way to do it is with a User ID/Password. You could use a stack such as Page Safe - or go the free route and use the htaccess file.

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**Author:** ![peglomaniac](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/peglomaniac/32/11510_2.png) [@peglomaniac](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/peglomaniac)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-text-to-preclude-indexing-of-one-page-only/38991/5 "2021-04-27T12:51:08Z")

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Yes, I have used the .htaccess file for an entire site, I will look into that for a single page. Thank you. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/system/32/25301_2.png) [@system](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-text-to-preclude-indexing-of-one-page-only/38991/6 "2021-05-27T22:51:32Z")

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