How to remove different pages of a website from google indexing?

Question

In webmater , i have added only my base url ,but the other pages are indexed. do i have to enter all pages manually to remove each page form google indexing? please suggest a solution?

Answer 1

Have you considered using a Robots.txt file to exclude the other pages from being crawled?

You can exclude individual pages or directories or everything:

user-agent: *
Disallow: /
Disallow: /products/*

See this answer for more explanation on excluding everything except the root

You can read more about Robots.txt files here