How to hide pages from Google indexing?
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Issue
- We would like to hide certain pages from the Google search engine.
- How can we do that?
Resolution
There are multiple ways to hide a page so that it would not be indexed by the Google search engine. If you want to make sure to hide it, you can set all of these.
- Add the page to the
Disallowlist in
Site Builder > Pages > Public/Private Pages configuration > Advanced > ROBOTS
- Add only
noindexto the field in Page Configuration > SEO > Robots.
Then make sure to exclude it from the sitemap as well by setting Include =No in the Sitemap section.
Notes
Whatever is written into the field, is added as the value of the content in the robots meta tag:
<meta content="content in the Robots field" name="robots" />
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