Excluding a page from the front page search control

[Dan]

I use the Front Page search control on my web and it works pretty well, I
wouldn't say great but ok.
I'd like to know what properties to set on a page that will have the effect
of excluding that page from being indexed and from search results. I'd also
be interested in knowing how one can improve search results. Currently I am
using FP2003 and have only set "Page Descriptio" and the "Key Words"
properties for each page. However, it seems at time to find pages which are
completely unrelated to the key word search. If anyone can point me to an
article, or have a tip, I'd appreciate it.

Regards,

Dan Latrimurti

 

[Dan]

Trying to answer my own question but am not totally confident in the
correctness of the anwer.
After doing some research the only thing I have found is the meta tag for
robots.
I set the page properties of the page that I don't want to index to
robots=none.
I did this by opening up the page properties, clicking on the "Custom" tab,
then
added a user variable where "Name" set to "Robots" and "Value" set to none.
Is this correct?
Can anyone confirm this?

Dan

 

[Dan]

I confirm that this answer below produced the results I was seeking. Pages
are successfully excluded from front page search results using this
technique.