blocking search engine spiders w/ robots.txt or .htaccess?

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I have a page which I wish to keep hidden from the spiders and cannot have it listed in the serps, how can i do this? is it possible with .htaccess, or should i go with robots.txt, i'm not entirely sure how to do either really. what should i do?
 
You could use this:

<html>
<head>

<META name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" >
 
is that enough to keep me out of yahoo and google?
 
Usually yes.
This is a must for your ThankYou page if you're selling your own e-book.
It prevents the web spiders from indexing your download pages.
 
However, just to warn you, robots.txt only blocks "good" spiders like Gbot and Ybot; it won't stop the Al3xa bot or human readers from accessing the page.
 
I have a page which I wish to keep hidden from the spiders and cannot have it listed in the serps

<META name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" >

A meta tag will not hide it from the spiders it's is telling the search engines not to index that page

So is it hide it from the search engines Or stop it from being listed in the seach engine results?
 
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