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Published Jun. 30, 2025

How to hide pages from Google indexing?

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Rita Schaff

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Issue

  • We would like to hide certain pages from the Google search engine.
  • How can we do that?

Environment

  • DXP 7.0+

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 theDisallowlist in
    Site Builder > Pages > Public/Private Pages configuration > Advanced > ROBOTS
    Public-Private_Pages_Configuration_-_Advanced_-_Robots.gif
  • Add onlynoindexto 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.
    Page_Configuration_-_SEO_-_Robots_and_Sitemap.png

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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