How do I block parts of my website from being indexed (eg. block entire folders or individual files)?
You can use the page and folder skip list in the Zoom configuration window to block pages or entire folders from being indexed. This is a list of pages and folders that will not be scanned during the indexing process. Note that filenames and paths are case sensitive. Typically you would want to filter pages that the user should never be able to get to directly via the search function. e.g. a private section of you site. Note that if the path to a page partially or fully matches any entry in this list it will be filtered. Example 1: An entry in the skip list of, /cat will result in all of the following files being ignored. /cat/document1.html /cat.html /catalogue/document2.html /catsanddogs/document3.pdf /animals/cats/fuzzy/big.pdf etc…. You could liimit skipping to just ‘cat’ folders for the above example by adding an additional /, for example, /cat/ would only skip /cat/document1.html /animals/cats/fuzzy/big.pdf Example 2: An entry in the skip list of, www.mysite.com/private/ will r
