How to exclude a website from real-time Google search results?

Question

Google bots have recently indexed my test web site which is not intended for users. How can i exclude my JSP web site from google's search result?

Mikael Svenson · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-22 19:07:27Z

Add a robots.txt file on the root of your server with:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

You can also add this to your start page (or any page):

<html>
<head>
<title>...</title>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
</head>

This should stop all indexing for crawlers who play nice.

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