How do I prevent my admin path from being grabbed / picked by the search engines? Tha

[Webaijway9]

How do I prevent my admin path from being grabbed / picked by the search engines? Thanks.

[Orjan]

by not linking to it anywhere, and if so, only when you are logged in.

[BlaineSch]

Yea taking away the links would definitely do it. No links and google won't find it. They don't try guessing directories for each site that would be pointless.

If you really wanna prevent it, setup a .htaccess to password protect it, even though it's already password protected, in the .htaccess make it really easy so you can remember (or hard if you want the extra password). If google gets that screen it'll ignore the page.

[mnmtanish]

Try robots.txt http://www.robotstxt.org/ All legal spiders listens to the Robot.

[BlaineSch]

No, I think the point is so nobody can find the admin page... yes google would not index it if you put it in there, but any attacker could also see that file and know where the admin page is. Bad idea.

[mnmtanish]

How do I prevent my admin path from being grabbed / picked by the search engines? Thanks.

well?

[hodge-podge]

Use the "robots" meta tag. Using "robots.txt" is pointless see as anyone can read its contents and thus, your path. The meta tag method is much more secure.