In the days of the Google Panda Algorithm there are times when we want to stop Google bot or for that matter all bots indexing content from within a particular folder. The following command below also stops users viewing files within the folder and listing the contents of the folder on the website.  First we need to create a file within notepad or your favorite HTML editor. Call it .htaccess.

.htaccess

Then within the file add the following lines of text .

The simply save that /htaccess file to the folder on your website that you do not want to index. Take a look at the earlier article on how to remove pages from googles index.
To test simply try and go to the folder to view the contents or to be 100% sure that google cannot browse that folder do a google fetch from within webmaster tools.

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