Question Answer Question How do I prevent Google from indexing my web page and letting people search for it? Answer In some situations, it may become necessary to prevent Google or other search engines from indexing your web page. If you are hosting content on eng.utoledo.edu, the main way to do this is through the meta tag. At the top of your page, insert the following: <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> This will prevent search engines from listing your page, as it is a standard accepted by Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. If you want to prevent these engines from maintaining a copy of your page in their archive as a cache: <meta name="robots" content="noarchive" /> For a more comprehensive look at this and other methods, with pros and cons for each, try here.