How can I hide or exclude specific CMS collection item pages from being indexed by Google in Webflow?

Published on
September 22, 2023

To hide or exclude specific CMS collection item pages from being indexed by Google in Webflow, you can follow these steps:

  1. Log in to your Webflow account and navigate to the Designer.
  2. Open the CMS collection that contains the item you want to exclude from indexing.
  3. Select the specific item by clicking on it in the left sidebar.
  4. In the right sidebar, under the "Settings" tab, scroll down to the "SEO" section.
  5. Find the "Indexing" option and toggle it off. This will exclude the page from being indexed by search engines like Google.
  6. Save your changes and publish your site.

By following these steps, you can prevent specific CMS collection item pages from appearing in search engine results.

Additionally, it's important to note that you can also set up rules in a robots.txt file to exclude specific URLs from being indexed by search engines. Here's how you can do it:

  1. Create a new plain text file named "robots.txt" (or edit an existing one) in the root directory of your site.
  2. Open the file and add the following line to exclude a specific CMS item page from indexing:
User-agent: *Disallow: /your-page-url

Replace "your-page-url" with the actual URL of the CMS collection item page you want to exclude.
Save the file and publish your site.

Please keep in mind that excluding a page from search engine indexing using these methods doesn't guarantee that it won't be discovered or indexed by other means. It simply advises search engine crawlers not to index the page.

Additional Questions:

  1. How do I toggle indexing for multiple CMS collection item pages in Webflow?
  2. Can I exclude all CMS item pages from being indexed in Webflow?
  3. Are there any other ways to control search engine indexing in Webflow?