# Robots.txt to completely block all indexing of private site

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/robots-txt-to-completely-block-all-indexing-of-private-site/143429>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 5, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/robots-txt-to-completely-block-all-indexing-of-private-site/143429 "2020-03-05T17:28:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![L30110](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@L30110](https://meta.discourse.org/u/L30110)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/robots-txt-to-completely-block-all-indexing-of-private-site/143429/5 "2020-03-06T15:38:44Z")

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The site has always required login, and does not permit user self-registration. However, it has still been showing up in search engines – just with no content indexed since it couldn’t log in. My hope is that with robots.txt blocking explicitly, any mention will cease. Thanks.

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