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Author	Asking HTML robots to not index certain GenoReports
Nand	Posted Sunday, April 8, 2007 - Post #17290
Famous Writer Customers FamilyTrees.GenoPro.com GenoPro version: 3.1.0.1 Last Login: 8 hours ago Posts: 478, Visits: 3,261	The current privacy option allows to remove references to living individuals, contacts, etc. This is indeed recommended when publishing a family tree on the web. One other option would be not to apply any privacy options when generating the HTML report but to generate a full report and try to hide it on a web site in a specific sub-folder which is only known to you and the family members who need to have access to it. The only thing needed further is to avoid having HTML robots accessing and indexing your pages anyhow and making them available on the web in which case they will turn up after a simple search command. Although it is not bullet proof, the w3 consortium provided the following meta directive for this to be provided in the header section of the HTML document. META name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" (to be enclosed between less than and greater than characters of course but the forum software did not like this, even not between code tags) Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.4.1.2 It still depends on the robots to respect this directive or not but I have tried it a few times and it seems to work so far. As an extra precaution you could change the name of the sub-folder from time to time, after informing your family members of course. Could you add this option to the generate report / privacy menu? Edited: Friday, April 27, 2007 by GenoProSupport

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Search Engine 'Robot Privacy' when crawling reports By Nand ( Sunday, April 8, 2007 )

The ISP where I have my web site does not allow password protection... By Nand ( Friday, April 27, 2007 )

I don't know if the host of my web site has problems with passwords... By IainTait ( Friday, April 27, 2007 )

Place a 'robots.txt' file in your report skin and it will be uploaded... By Poolzone ( Sunday, April 8, 2007 )

The problem with the robots.txt file is that there is a single file... By jcmorin ( Sunday, April 8, 2007 )

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