[Webmaster_forum] Secure web site area for members only

[Penneman, Roger B]

My impression was that the password-protected area mentioned in the
beginning of the thread would be blocked from search engines, as well as
anyone else without the password.  Doesn't the meta tag "robot"
accomplish the same thing as robot.txt, but applied to individual pages?

Roger Penneman

-----Original Message-----
From: John R. Bradley [mailto:jrb at accurecord.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:09 AM
To: 'Dan Bartell'; 'Phil Arcuni'
Cc: Penneman, Roger B; 'two way communication for webmasters'
Subject: RE: [Webmaster_forum] Secure web site area for members only

Isn't this a question of having a facility to maintain robots.txt which
sits at \web\webroot and is suppose to tell indexing robots where not to
go? Or alternatively if we had a policy of allowing a "secure" directory
under any localusps directory that wants a secure directory we could add
a statement like DISALLOW \localusps\*\secure and accomplish the desired
result.
John Bradley 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Bartell [mailto:dtb at usps.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:12 PM
To: Phil Arcuni
Cc: John Bradley; Penneman, Roger B; two way communication for
webmasters
Subject: Re: [Webmaster_forum] Secure web site area for members only

Understand Guys that this is what Dave turned up and I did tell you guys
a while back that one of the major problems was that google would index
everything.

You need to get Dave to tell people how to exclude directories from the
search and he needs to manage that.

Cheers,
Dan
PS:  Other than this problem the search works great At 15:36 3/12/2008,
Phil Arcuni wrote:
>Hello,
>
>This scheme is still posted, and you are the most knowledgeable on the 
>subject. I did notice that the older IP address is still showing. 
>Please respond to the query at your earliest convenience.
>
>Best, Phil
>
>P/R/C Philip Arcuni, SN
>Information Technology Committee
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Penneman, Roger B" 
><roger.b.penneman at lmco.com>
>To: <plarcuni at sprynet.com>
>Cc: "two way communication for webmasters" <webmaster_forum at usps.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:48 PM
>Subject: [Webmaster_forum] Secure web site area for members only
>
>
>>Is this technique for creating password-protected areas on squadron 
>>websites still valid?
>>http://www.usps.org/national/itcom/shared/help/simple_password.html
>>
>>Lately it seems that anything on the national server is available to 
>>Google, to the point that I now have to scrub our newsletter before 
>>posting a pdf version.  So I want to set up a secure area for pages 
>>that contain private information.  Any tips?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Roger Penneman
>>Fort Worth
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>P/C Dan Bartell, SN
>SEO - Shallotte River Sail & Power Squadron - D27 (NC)
>Member USPS National Information Technology Committee