Control Page Indexing with Noindex and Nofollow

Pagecloud lets you control how search engines treat individual pages. You can hide a page from search results (noindex) or tell search engines not to follow links on the page (nofollow), all from the SEO tab in Page Settings.

What Noindex and Nofollow Do

Noindex: The page will not appear in search engine results. Search engines can still crawl the page, but they will not list it.
Nofollow: Search engines will not follow or pass link credit through any links on the page.

Both directives are added to a single robots meta tag on the page. You can use them independently or together.

When to Use These Controls

Thank-you or confirmation pages: These don’t need to appear in search results.
Duplicate or test pages: Prevent search engines from indexing content that duplicates another page.
Pages with untrusted outbound links: Use nofollow when you don’t want to vouch for linked content.
Staging or draft pages: Keep work-in-progress pages out of search results.

Hide a Page from Search Results (Noindex)

Open the page in the Pagecloud editor.
Open Page Settings from the left sidebar.
Click the SEO tab.
Under the Search section, toggle “Visible in search results” to OFF.
Save the page.

When the toggle is OFF, a noindex directive is added to the page’s robots meta tag. Toggle it back ON to make the page visible in search results again.

Prevent Search Engines from Following Links (Nofollow)

Open the page in the Pagecloud editor.
Open Page Settings from the left sidebar.
Click the SEO tab.
Under the Search section, toggle “Follow links” to OFF.
Save the page.

When the toggle is OFF, a nofollow directive is added to the page’s robots meta tag. Toggle it back ON to allow search engines to follow links again.

Difference from Site-Wide Search Engine Visibility

The site-wide “Visible to Search Engines” toggle (found in Site Settings > SEO) hides your entire site from search engines. The per-page controls described here let you manage indexing and link following on individual pages without affecting the rest of your site.

For site-wide visibility settings, see Allow Search Engines to Crawl and Index your Site.