blocking URLs without a robots.txt

[Steve Bullman]

Urgent assistant required.  Need to block URL's on my site.  I have deleted them and requested google to remove them but according to google I need to add them to a robots.txt or metatags.  Not sure I can do the second option as i removed the pages?

[opentype]

Robots.txt

User-Agent: * 
Disallow: /some-folder/some-file.htm

 

[Steve Bullman]

so i can basically make a txt file, name it Robots.txt and put that inside?

 

Where should it be placed, public html?

[opentype]

Yes, the public root. More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard

[Steve Bullman]

thanks, seems to be working

 

[Steve Bullman]

I was told to do this in google webmasters support forum

Quote

If it's a matter of you wanting to keep the url live on the site but no see it in search results you need to add a robots noindex meta tag to the page and NOT block it in the robots.txt file.

You can then request an outright url removal.

specifically what would I have to put into this section please?

 

 

[bfarber]

For the meta tags select 'robots' and then in the value field enter noindex.