Delisting a Site

In all my 8 years of designing websites I've never had to de-list or remove a site from the web.

Today I did.

The owner of the business is terminally ill and I was instructed by the family to take the site down. Luckily it was only 4 pages so I replaced all the old pages with a simple "this website is no longer maintained" message and a de-listing via the robots.txt file.

To de-list the website from the search engines using the robots.txt file just create these lines in the file...

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

And that's it.