How do I prevent my product pages from showing up on Google?

spearce000 9 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelChief

As for my Thank-you pages and download pages, how do I hide these from Google searches??

First of all, change them because there's no guarantee they will be de-indexed.

If they're just HTML pages, you can set the meta tags to they don't get indexed. In the <head> section put the following:

<meta name="robots" content="noarchive,noindex,nofollow">
<meta name="revisit" content="never">

This site explains it in more detail: The Web Robots Pages (not an affiliate link).

There are plug-ins for Wordpress that allow you to restrict access to download pages, too.
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joeho

9 years ago

Put in google drive, Dropbox, or AWS. Or you can use noindex on that page.

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Samuel Adams

9 years ago

You can prevent your download link pages from being indexed by including them in a robots.txt file on your site. This should clear up the problem.

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Jeffery Moss

9 years ago

You can find out more about how to block Google spiders from indexing certain pages on your site here, from an official Google help page.

https://support.google.com/webmaster...r/182072?hl=en

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gcbmark20

9 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelChief

I just realized that searching for my products on Google gives away my download links for free. How do I prevent certain pages and pdf files from being searched? I host my ebooks on my own site... Should I not be doing that?

Hi,

You can create an HTML download page first and foremost.

Then you need to put a "Index" file into your main directory.

Then you add your download pages etc to the sub directory.

This prevents any easy route to your download page and makes it non
visible to those without the actual link to the D/L page.

Plus for HTML pages you can grab a code that you can paste onto
your download pages that prevents it from getting indexed by the
search engines.

Just look it up on Google.

Have a great day,

Gavin

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Brent Stangel

9 years ago

You could use one of the many expiring download links.

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OnlineStoreHelp

9 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelChief

I just realized that searching for my products on Google gives away my download links for free. How do I prevent certain pages and pdf files from being searched? I host my ebooks on my own site... Should I not be doing that?

So... are these just naked pages without any protection? There are plenty of great free and paid member solutions to help you with protecting your content.

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newxxx

9 years ago

what about not putting any meta tags at all on the page

then google won't see a title or a description and no key words

then will it get indexed without any meta tags at all ?

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samk2824

9 years ago

You Can Easily Block Them Using Robots.txt or in .htaccess

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yukon

Banned 9 years ago

You can noindex file types, example: .pdf, .zip, .png, etc...

After you've blocked the file types from the SERPs later on you can recheck the SERPs like this:

site:domain.com filetype:pdf

If someone is determined to find the file, they'll find the file without Google SERPs. Still, every little bit helps (removing the files from the SERPs).

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