How to stop pdf files hosted in Marketo being indexed?

[SanfordWhiteman · Accepted solution]

Inspired: http://blog.teknkl.com/customizing-the-robots-txt-for-marketo-lps/

[Julz_James]

amazing..thank you!

[Dan_Stevens_]

Learned something new once again - thanks Sandy!

[Josh_Hill13]

Wow, of course.

How should the robots.txt be formatted to Disallow just pdf file types? Would this article help?

indexing - How to prevent a PDF file from being indexed by search engines? - Webmasters Stack Exchan...

apparently if you set the PDF headers correctly, you can make the PDF itself disallow crawling.

[SanfordWhiteman]

How should the robots.txt be formatted to Disallow just pdf file types? Would this article help?

I'd go with

User-agent: *
Disallow: /rs/

apparently if you set the PDF headers correctly, you can make the PDF itself disallow crawling.

Yep, that would be cool, but we don't have access at that level.