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How to stop pdf files hosted in Marketo being indexed?

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SanfordWhiteman
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Julz_James
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amazing..thank you!

Dan_Stevens_
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Learned something new once again - thanks Sandy!

Josh_Hill13
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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
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Re: How to stop pdf files hosted in Marketo being indexed?

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.