Usually, we talk about how to index pages better and faster in search engines. Today, we will talk about how to hide pages from search robots so that they do not appear in Google and Yandex SERPs.
Let's first decide which pages to hide from search engine crawlers. Pages with confidential information, and those pages where personal data of a person are present, and of course the administrative panel of the site. You can close the entire site from search. If you are not a super secret agent 007, posting secret documents for your colleagues on closed access, then you have nothing to close the site from search robots entirely.
Search bots are programs from Google and Yandex that regularly visit your site and scan your site's content to check if you have new content to post on search engines.
How to hide a page from search engines?
The page indexing rules are set in the robot.txt file, which is located in the root directory of your site's files, if it does not exist, then you can create a file on a regular Windows notepad. Before manipulating this file, you should better study the rules for making changes to this file, so as not to accidentally close from search robots those pages that bring you customers and, therefore, income. Of course, it is best to entrust this job to an SEO specialist, but if you want to figure it out yourself, be sure to read what robot.txt is and what this file is responsible for. Fortunately, there are a lot of instructions on the Internet for creating and editing a robot.txt file. I am sure you will find and figure out how to work with it, but be careful and do not close the pages you need, otherwise you risk losing the pages that bring you income.