How can I prevent Google from indexing the CMS Collection page for my team members that only contains lorem ipsum content?
To prevent Google from indexing the CMS Collection page for your team members that only contains lorem ipsum content, you can follow these steps:
Access the Settings of the page: Go to your Webflow project, navigate to the page in question, and click on the gear icon in the Pages panel to access the settings.
Exclude the page from search engines: In the General tab of the page settings, you will find an option called "Allow search engines to index this page." Ensure that this option is disabled, which means it's unchecked. This will prevent search engines, including Google, from indexing the page.
Update your robots.txt file: If you want to go a step further and explicitly inform search engines about not indexing the page, you can update your robots.txt file. To access this file, go to the Hosting tab in your Webflow project settings. Scroll down to the Custom code section, and under "Add custom code before tag," you can add the following line:
Disallow: /your-page-url. Replace "your-page-url" with the actual URL of the CMS Collection page you want to exclude. This code instructs search engine bots not to crawl the specified page.Test the changes: After making these changes, you should check if the page is properly excluded from search engine index. You can do this by performing a Google search using the
site:yourdomain.comsearch operator followed by the title or specific content from the CMS Collection page. If the page is successfully excluded, it should not appear in the search results.
Remember that implementing these steps will prevent search engines from indexing the CMS Collection page, but it won't remove any previously indexed versions. It may take some time for search engines to update their index and remove the page. Additionally, note that these steps are specific to Webflow and may vary slightly depending on your website platform.
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