sarafina Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Should this be something we do? Sometimes when I have a site, some parts get indexed that I don't necessarily want to. I have changed my admin folder from domain.com/admin to domain.com/somethingelse and I don't want it to come up in the search engines. Am I being paranoid? Contributions installed: Purchase without Account / STS/ All Products/ Header Tags Controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markg-uk Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 It won't get indexed as the spiders won't find it (the admin dir is standalone to the main site - not linked at all). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooks Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Pehaps you were getting confused by some of the mis-informed posts on this forum suggesting using robots.txt to prevent indexing!! There should be no mention of your admin folders within robots.txt, further as markg said, mas there are no links they will never find it. If you have your admin properly protected through htaccess, as detailed in this forum, no-one, including robots, are able to access without passwords etc. Sam Remember, What you think I ment may not be what I thought I ment when I said it. Contributions: Auto Backup your Database, Easy way Multi Images with Fancy Pop-ups, Easy way Products in columns with multi buy etc etc Disable any Category or Product, Easy way Secure & Improve your account pages et al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarafina Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 Thank you spooks. There was a discussion on the ip trap forum where people said they were putting their admin in the robots txt but I didn't like that idea personally. I will add the htaccess. Contributions installed: Purchase without Account / STS/ All Products/ Header Tags Controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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