I've Been Deindexed by Google

# I've Been Deindexed by Google! Source: [https://kennyqin.com/deindexed-by-google/](https://kennyqin.com/deindexed-by-google/) [## Citron](https://kennyqin.com/)[Home](https://kennyqin.com/)[Blog](https://kennyqin.com/blog)[Now](https://kennyqin.com/now)[About](https://kennyqin.com/about)[/](https://kennyqin.com/slashes) *07 Oct, 2026* 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\. I started out by setting a blanket disallow in the robots\.txt\. ``` User-agent: * Disallow: / ``` When I realised that didn't do anything after a few weeks of waiting and checking, I set the`robots`meta tag\. ``` <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> ``` I thought that would do the trick\. What I didn't realise is that you have to actually, ironically,**allow**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\. ``` User-agent: Googlebot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: / ``` 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\. 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\! 🥳 [\#degoogle](https://kennyqin.com/blog/?q=degoogle)[\#meta](https://kennyqin.com/blog/?q=meta)