I want to de-index all the pages of my website except home page. This is because it is an exact match domain (EMD) and I'm getting traffic on website just because of Domain name.
I want to restart the website. How is it possible ?
I want to de-index all the pages of my website except home page. This is because it is an exact match domain (EMD) and I'm getting traffic on website just because of Domain name.
I want to restart the website. How is it possible ?
Try putting the following robots.txt in the root of your website:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Allow: /$
Note that it will take time and that you can use Webmaster Tools to manually request their removal (this can speed up the process).
Using a robots.txt file will not cause a pages to be de-indexed. It will just prevent search engines from crawling them. They can still be listed in the search results, though. To have pages removed from the index you need to use the x-robots-tag
HTTP header:
x-robots-tag: noindex
x-robots.-tag
HTTP header.
Use the noindex meta tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
on all pages except the Homepage. This will ensure all pages (other than the homepage) are removed from major search engines.
If you are not in a hurry, set noindex noarchive
on all your pages, except the home page, and let crawlers do their work progressively.
If you are in a hurry, block access in your robots.txt
and use the remove URLs feature in Google Webmaster Tools too. You can use the Block URls feature in Bing too.