Keeping Pages From Being Archived
Some search engines save a copy of your Web page and offer it as an alternative if your site is down or otherwise inaccessible. However, there is no guarantee that this cached version is up to date. If you’d rather your page not be archived on a search engine’s server, you can tell the robot not to archive it.
To keep search engines from archiving your pages:
In the head section of your page, type <meta name="robots" content="noarchive" />.
✓ Tip
Presently, Google is the most important search engine that archives Web pages. If you’d like to keep only Google from archiving your pages, you can specify googlebot instead of robots as the value of the name attribute above.
Figure 24.9. Some search engines, like ...
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