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(Entry was posted by ajay rana on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 07/31/2013).

How to restrict duplicate profiles from indexing?

How can we stop google to index the map?
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Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Dave Elliott: add ;<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> (note this will stop all search engines from indexing it)  ;to the <head> of your web pages

    Add
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

    to your robots.txt file.

    If you want to target google specifically. ;

    <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" content="NOINDEX, NOARCHIVE">

    &

    User-agent: googlebot
    Disallow: /

    to the same section/file. ;But i'm guessing you want it hidden from everything.
  • ajay rana: +Dave Elliott ;actually, someone has made the duplicate Google + profile for local search and while doing personal search on Google, the map of duplicate profile is seen, not ours. How to restrict that profile to index even after doing personal search. (Note:- duplicate issue with is the google map only)
  • Tony McCreath: If it's for your address you should be able to claim it then remove it.

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 07/31/2013).