Fine tuning search

Question

We (company wise) are using SP13. We have a document library containing information that should not be found when doing a search on the page - e.g. on the Home page using "Search entire site. I have set "Allow items from this list to appear in search results?" to No but it still shows results from all other pages. In general: what is the best way to fine tune a search on the site. Note: Usage of SharePoint Designer is disabled.

Answer 1

Go to Search service application -> Crawl rules -> Add the URL to library or folder that you wish to exclude from crawls.

You will find some help on how to do this on the "Add Crawl Rule" page, or you could take help from MSDN.