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by enoptix 4820 days ago
You can also specify a meta robots tag inside the page HTML. If you want to block a lot of pages, your best bet would be to add it to your master layout or template. You get the same effect of blocking on robots.txt but without exposing a list of blocked pages.

The downside is that Google will still crawl the page and use your bandwidth, but the page won't be indexed.