Do you have a problem keeping your secure pages secure? There’s a good explanation for it if you do.

Of course, you know how to tell the difference between a secure and a non-secure web page, right? Look in your web browser. If the URL you are looking at begins with http://, then it not secure. If the URL begins https:// then you have a secure web page. But how do you keep it secure?

Of course, you’ll need to add code to your page to require a visitor login, but that isn’t enough to keep the page secure. You’ll also need to keep the search engine spiders off of the page. Otherwise, they’ll end up crawling the page and indexing it. Users who find the page through a search will have access to your secure information. You don’t want that to happen.

You’ll need to add a robots meta tag and use the “nofollow” and “noindex” commands. That will keep the spiders from following links to those pages and keep them from following links within the pages. The “noindex” command will stop them from indexing the pages should you miss the “nofollow” command. Use both commands so that you don’t leave any loopholes. As an added measure, you could include a “noarchive” command, which tells the search engines not to keep those pages in their archives for future retrieval. You might as well cover all your bases.

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