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      "content_html": "<p>I don't remember exactly when but, earlier in the year, I decided I didn't want this website to be indexed by search engines anymore. A lot of it has to do with AI and the relentless scraping that plagues the internet now. I know that as long as my blog is accessible by the public internet, there are no real measures I can put in to stop it but at least some of it will be respected.</p>\n<p>I started out by setting a blanket disallow in the robots.txt.</p>\n<pre><code><span class=\"code-snippet\">User-agent: *\nDisallow: /\n</span></code></pre>\n<p>When I realised that didn't do anything after a few weeks of waiting and checking, I set the <code>robots</code> meta tag.</p>\n<pre><code><span class=\"code-snippet\">&lt;meta name=&quot;robots&quot; content=&quot;noindex, nofollow&quot; /&gt;\n</span></code></pre>\n<p>I thought that would do the trick. What I didn't realise is that you have to actually, ironically, <strong>allow</strong> the bot that will do the deindexing to visit your website so that it can see the meta tag that tells it to not index your page anymore.</p>\n<pre><code><span class=\"code-snippet\">User-agent: Googlebot\nAllow: /\n\nUser-agent: *\nDisallow: /\n</span></code></pre>\n<p>I also did this with several other common bots and removed them from the robots.txt whenever I found that my website had been deindexed.</p>\n<p>It's been at least 3 months since I did my last change to have Google deindex me and, after checking today, I'm happy to announce that this website is free from Google! 🥳</p>\n",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-08T07:59:30+00:00",
      "date_published": "2026-10-08T07:59:30+00:00",
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      "title": "I've Been Deindexed by Google",
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