exclude a PDF from search engine crawl LOCK

The_Glad_Hatter

i've been googleing about this and couldn't really find something to exclude a file.

You know how google searches pdf's and even has this online preview version of it?

Wel i'd rather not have my pdf crawled.

It's a resume containing my address etc. that'll be hosted on my portfolio site. Is there a way to exclude a pdf from any type of crawling/ indexing?

this is the first time i'm making a website without another techie to help me out, so excuse me if this is a superdumb question...

zeeny

Put it in a separate directory on the host and stop complying crawlers with robots.txt.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449

Edit: Quoted in case it's not evident:

The simplest robots.txt file uses two rules:

* User-agent: the robot the following rule applies to
* Disallow: the URL you want to block

These two lines are considered a single entry in the file. You can include as many entries as you want. You can include multiple Disallow lines and multiple user-agents in one entry.

Each section in the robots.txt file is separate and does not build upon previous sections. For example:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /folder1/

User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /folder2/

In this example only the URLs matching /folder2/ would be disallowed for Googlebot.

ecco the dolphin

Are you able to upload a file called "robots.txt" to the root directory of your website? i.e. so that yourdomain.com/robots.txt is accessible by search engines?

This file can be used to tell well behaving search engines to ignore specific files.

See example in Wikipedia.

Edit: Outplayed sir! Well played zeeny, well played. =P

soxbox

If you've already put it up and google has already indexed it, http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164734

The_Glad_Hatter

okay, i thought robots.txt only worked for other stuff. apparantly it doesn't. i'll just have to move the pdf into a folder.

Thanks guys!

put a fork in it, this thread's done!
and by fork, i mean lock.
/lamejoke