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Blocking Page from Search Engines

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:14 pm
by ep2002
Hi there,

How do you block a page so it doesn't show up in the search engine, but it's still live?

I thought you just click on the green checkmark under "active", but that makes me think the page won't load at all.

Thanks


Michelle

Re: Blocking Page from Search Engines

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 5:49 pm
by klenkes
On the OPTIONS tab of your page is a checkbox that says THIS PAGE IS SEACHABLE.
Uncheck it!

Re: Blocking Page from Search Engines

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:08 am
by M@rtijn
Give it a noindex tag in the header?
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

On the OPTIONS tab of your page is a checkbox that says THIS PAGE IS SEACHABLE.
Uncheck it!
That option is something completely different:

"This page is searchable: Make a page searchable for the Search Module or not. Uncheck it and the search module will ignore this page."
(http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... dd_Content)

Re: Blocking Page from Search Engines

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:42 pm
by replytomk3
Robots.txt

Re: Blocking Page from Search Engines

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:45 pm
by ep2002
Sorry for the delay, I'm swamped looking for new housing.

So will unchecking that do the trick? Someone said yes, the other person said no.

I don't want to mess with code, as I'm not a website coder & am still looking for a new one.

Thanks

Michelle

Re: Blocking Page from Search Engines

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:57 pm
by M@rtijn
And have you tried it?
Have you read the link to the user handbook?
"This page is searchable: Make a page searchable for the Search Module or not. Uncheck it and the search module will ignore this page."
(http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... dd_Content)

Also, there is no need to be scared to add that line to your code, it will not mess anything up. It's not rocketscience, you know.
It's actually common practice and very well documented on the interwebs.

Re: Blocking Page from Search Engines

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:28 pm
by ep2002
I don't have time to read long pages. I'm the owner of the company, not a worker, I thought there was a quick fix.

I have the older versions of CMS running, so that text isn't what I'm seeing.

What did the older text say so I can uncheck that?

Cacheable?

Thanks

Michelle