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When should you use robots.txt, noindex, canonicals, or authentication to control search access?

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Choose the control based on the desired outcome. Use robots.txt when you want to reduce crawling of URL patterns that search engines do not need to fetch, but understand that blocked URLs can still appear in search if discovered through links. Robots.txt is a crawl directive, not a reliable deindexing mechanism. Use noindex when a URL may be crawled but sho…

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