Prevent Particular Pages From Being Indexed by Search Engines

Applies To

Product: NetSuite 2023.1

SuiteApp/Bundle:  

• SiteBuilder & Basic WebStore
• SuiteCommerce | ID 468619 | Version 2023.1.0
• SuiteCommerce Advanced | ID 453986 | Version 2022.2.1

Scenario

There will be instances wherein certain pages need to be restricted so that they are not available to the public. Search engines crawl the web and index pages depending on the restrictions set in the robots.txt file. A user can do the following if they want to make sure that particular pages are not crawled by search engines.

Solution

1. ClickEdit the corresponding page
   Note: Examples of pages can include category, tab, item, information item, published saved search, etc.
2. Meta Tag HTML: Insert the following code segment:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

Note: Available contents and how Google interprets them:

• NOINDEX tag tells Google not to index a specific page.
• NOFOLLOW tag tells Google not to follow the links on a specific page.
• NOARCHIVE tag tells Google not to store a cached copy of your page.
• NOSNIPPET tag tells Google not to show a snippet (description) under your Google listing, it will also not show a cached link in the search results.