Hide a page from search engines

Turn on Disable Indexing to keep a published page out of search engines. Readers can still open and read the page.

Hide a page

You must be able to write to the space. The setting saves directly on the page, without a change request.

1. Open the page in the wiki app.
2. In the page header, click Page settings (the settings icon).
3. Under General, turn on Disable Indexing.
4. Click Save.

To show the page in search engines again, turn off Disable Indexing and click Save.

What changes

When Disable Indexing is on:

• The public page has <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> in its <head>.
• The Markdown version of the page sends the X-Robots-Tag: noindex header.
• The page is not in the sitemap.
• The page is not in the llms.txt index of the space. See Markdown pages and llms.txt.

The tag is noindex only, not nofollow. Search engines still follow the links on the page to other pages.

Limits

• The setting is for one page. A group does not have it, and pages do not inherit it. To hide many pages, turn it on for each page.
• The wiki search still finds the page.
• On a page that GitHub Sync manages, the setting stays editable. A sync does not change it.
• A search engine can take some time to remove a page that it already indexed.

Disable Indexing, unpublished and private

On the public site, an unpublished page, or a page in an unpublished space, returns "not found" to everyone. Editors still see it in the wiki app. A private space has no Guest role, so search engines cannot read its pages. See Who can read and write.