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I want to remove my GitHub profile and repos therein from being found via Google search. Researching how to do this, I see it comes down to three possible methods:

  1. Adding a robots.txt file
  2. Adding meta tag to prevent indexing
  3. Removing URL via Google Webmasters

To my understanding, methods 1 and 2 above won't work for a GitHub account, but only works if you own the root domain.

For method 3, first you have to verify ownership of the specified URL by one of the following means:

  1. HTML file
  2. HTML tag
  3. Google Analytics
  4. Google Tag Manager
  5. Domain name provider

With any of the verification methods mentioned above, I don't see how GitHub supports any of them.

Given these considerations, any ideas on how I can remove my GitHub profile and repos from Google search results?

Bill Jones
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As long as I know, you can't hide your github account from google.

I also found this answer explaining the same thing.

Also check the GitHub's robots.txt file for more information

Alex Bntz
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