Suggestions Please (nice one's)

[Old Fart]

I have been asked to make a site map for a site at work the site is for a
closed audience
so I don't really want it displayed on search engines ,, suggestions on how
to do it please ?

also they want a collage of pictures on the index page
any tips on a graphics editor to do this please ?

 

[Ari Heino]

No apostrophe on nice ones. And what's wrong with not-so-nice ones?
'Cause that's what you'll get if you ask for nice ones

Old Fart kirjoitti seuraavasti:

I have been asked to make a site map for a site at work the site is for a
closed audience
so I don't really want it displayed on search engines ,, suggestions on how
to do it please ?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hide+pages+from+search+engine

also they want a collage of pictures on the index page
any tips on a graphics editor to do this please ?

Define what you mean with "collage" here: a picture made of pictures, or
separate, perhaps linked, pictures on one page?

Eg. Picasa will make you both of these.

BTW: Check your grammar if you ever make the pages.

 

[Old Fart]

hence my name "The Old Fart" grammar wasn't invented when I went to school

 

[Old Fart]

Thank You I downloaded it and it worked better than expected exactly what I
wanted
Thank You once again

could you suggest a site map program please

 

[Ari Heino]

Old Fart kirjoitti seuraavasti:

could you suggest a site map program please

No, sorry. Never used any.

 

[Helpful person]

I have been asked to make a site map for a site at work the site is for a
closed audience
so I don't really want it displayed on search engines ,, suggestions on how
to do it please ?

also they want a collage of pictures on the index page
any tips on a graphics editor to do this please ?

I believe the following meta tag should take care of search engines:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

Can someone please confirm?

www.richardfisher.com

 

[Andy Dingley]

I believe the following meta tag should take care of search engines:

  <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

It's not great. The problem is that it addresses a slightly different
problem - how to stop spiders _traversing_ your site and choosing what
to index, rather than stopping the content analysis bots from looking
at items to be indexed. You place this meta onto a page and it will
discourage well-behaved robots from following links off that page to
other pages (such as your super-secret sitemap).

Nofollow in particular is of no use once some other page (possibly on
a site that isn't yours to control) has already discovered your
sitemap and exposed its URL to the web, or else the spider simply
guesses that there's probably something called "sitemap" in the root
directory.

A better approach is a robots.txt file. This switches off indexing at
the directory level, and applies to the targets of this indexing, not
the referrers.

Really of course you might as well use both.

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Andy Dingley

It's not great. The problem is that it addresses a slightly different
problem - how to stop spiders _traversing_ your site and choosing what
to index, rather than stopping the content analysis bots from looking
at items to be indexed. You place this meta onto a page and it will
discourage well-behaved robots from following links off that page to
other pages (such as your super-secret sitemap).

Nofollow in particular is of no use once some other page (possibly on
a site that isn't yours to control) has already discovered your
sitemap and exposed its URL to the web, or else the spider simply
guesses that there's probably something called "sitemap" in the root
directory.

A better approach is a robots.txt file. This switches off indexing at
the directory level, and applies to the targets of this indexing, not
the referrers.

Really of course you might as well use both.

In addition, for links that should not be followed, such as <a
href="donotfollowlink">do not follow me</a>, use
<link type="canonical" href="http://example.com/page" /> in the head of
the document. Most of the big SEs obey that.

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

I have been asked to make a site map for a site at work the site is
for a closed audience
so I don't really want it displayed on search engines ,, suggestions
on how to do it please ?

No way to really do this without requiring some sort of server side
login, eg:

<?php
if(!isset($_SESSION['loggedin']))
{header ('location:login.php');}
?>

As for sitemapping software, I use Softplus GSiteCrawler
[http://gsitecrawler.com]. It creates sitemaps for Google and Yahoo, as
well as sitemaps for the website (although you do have to tweak those to
suit).

 

[Jan C. Faerber]

I have been asked to make a site map for a site at work the site is for a
closed audience
so I don't really want it displayed on search engines ,, suggestions on how
to do it please ?

Or you can put that single file on a free webspace where you never
will be indexed
even if you would like it.

 

[Old Fart]

Or you can put that single file on a free webspace where you never
will be indexed
even if you would like it.

Thank You Everyone for your suggestions
I will have a look at them and get things going
Thanks Again