Hide a page from search engines

[SKRASTS]

How can I hide certain pages from search engines?

[PaulNewton · Accepted solution]

You can either use liquid to render a meta tag to no-index on those pages, use the seo.hidden metafield method or the more complex edting of robots.txt

• meta tag
  • https://community.shopify.com/c/ecommerce-marketing/exclude-a-page-from-google/m-p/18193 
• seo.hidden metafield
  • https://community.shopify.com/c/technical-q-a/exclude-pages-from-site-map-xml/m-p/1153980 
  • https://community.shopify.com/c/technical-q-a/does-anyone-know-how-to-hide-certain-products-from-sea... 
• robots.txt
  • https://community.shopify.com/c/technical-q-a/robots-txt-editing-support-now-available/m-p/1214502 

And or also hide it in sitemaps

https://community.shopify.com/c/technical-q-a/exclude-pages-from-site-map-xml/m-p/1153980 

[SKRASTS]

Thank you. I ended up using this tutorial and created and edited a robots.txt file. It was really easy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSpud67rBIk

[marissa28]

FOUND A MUCH EASIER SOLUTION NO CODING NEEDED -  download search and discovery app by shopify - under  settings remove all boxes checked besides "products"  so easy to select what you want showing up under my sites search - i only wanted products not pages. 🙂  this will hide all pages though. 

[sarahrsc]

I was so pleased to find this solution! It was driving me mad! Thanks @marissa28 

[BitMan]

Does this only work for the internal search in the website?

If i toggle off "pages", will it hide pages from google/bing search? I do not want google to index my pages, atleast most of them that is.

That's what I really want, as I don't want to mess with the robots.txt file.