: How to remove a website completely from search engine indexes except the home page? I want to de-index all the pages of my website except home page. This is because it is an exact match domain

@Cooney921

Use the noindex meta tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> on all pages except the Homepage. This will ensure all pages (other than the homepage) are removed from major search engines.

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@Sue5673885

If you are not in a hurry, set noindex noarchive on all your pages, except the home page, and let crawlers do their work progressively.

If you are in a hurry, block access in your robots.txt and use the remove URLs feature in Google Webmaster Tools too. You can use the Block URls feature in Bing too.

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@Kristi941

Using a robots.txt file will not cause a pages to be de-indexed. It will just prevent search engines from crawling them. They can still be listed in the search results, though. To have pages removed from the index you need to use the x-robots-tag HTTP header:

x-robots-tag: noindex

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@Gloria169

Try putting the following robots.txt in the root of your website:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Allow: /$


Note that it will take time and that you can use Webmaster Tools to manually request their removal (this can speed up the process).

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