hide url from search engine

[jrahma]

Hi,

I am using the following url for my website admin:

http://www.mywebsite.com/site.admin

I would like to know how can prevent search engines from indexing the above url and anything under that folder e.g. site.amin/new.php, site.admin/edit.php, etc?

Thanks,
Jassim

[bradgrafelman]

robots.txt

[NogDog]

Note that such things only stop "nice" search engines, not those that are trying to sniff out security holes, mine data, or whatever. So if you're just trying to keep Google and Bing from displaying your admin page, robots.txt and/or rel="nofollow" in your <a> tags will help, but malicious/nosey bots will cheerfully ignore them.