How to Hide Pages and PDF Documents from being Indexed by Google
A client recently asked how to hide photos and PDF documents in their monthly Newsletter from being indexed by Google and other Search Engines.
The client was claiming that another website she manages on Weebly alowed her to hide individual blog articles. Here is the Support Ticket response.
Hi Renee,
I just tested the weebly.com website for being able to hide article pages. What I found was you can click the "Hide this page from search engines." in the SEO Settings for the Blog. What that does is effect ALL articles in the Bog, not just one article. The other thing I learned is by doing this weebly is removing the blog pages from the /sitemap.xml file they submit to the search engines. This in no way hides the page from being crawled and searched by all search engines. For the page to be truly hidden you need the following script in the "Head Script" section of any page.