There is a little known meta tag named "ROBOTS" that you can use to tell search engines how to and what to look at on your site.

The NOFOLLOW version of this tag tells the search engine to not look at any of the pages that are linked to the page with this tag.

Why would you not want a search engine to look at a page? Maybe you have a section of your site that contains confidential info and you don't want it showing up on Google.

A point to remember: if you have a link on a different page to your confidential info page, you'll have to add the NOFOLLOW tag to it as well!

Here's the HTML format for this tag:

‹META name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW""›

To learn how to add a Meta Tag to your pages, read the "Adding Meta Tags to Your Web Pages" article.

The next article in this series is Using Alternate Text Messages