j9lemmon Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Site URL: http://readyanimator.com When a user Googles the name of my product, readyanimator, Google returns pages that I've hidden in Squarespace, by via Settings > SEO > Hide from search engines. In each case, the pages being displayed by Google are Product Blocks. See screenshot. What should I do to prevent Google from displaying these pages? Thanks. Link to comment
modsquare Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Google "should" follow your guidelines on whether to index a page or not, but sometimes they have other ideas. Or if they index a page and then you change the setting to noindex, it can take awhile for that page to drop off their radar. However, if you have a Google Search Console account you can request that they remove a page from their index and usually they will honor that request. A few years ago Google indexed my Squarespace built-in domain and I went through a process to remove that from their index and it worked well. I did a write-up here on how to set-up your Google Search Console account and then remove the URLs you don't want in their index. https://modsquare.io/blog/remove-squarespace-domain-google-search-results Just scroll about 1/3rd of the way down the page and you'll see a subhead called " Resolution: Use A Google Search Console Account to Remove These URLs" and follow the instructions. Just use your primary domain and not the SQSP built-in domain. This is probably going to be the fastest way to get rid of those. It might take up to a few weeks but I'll bet that this clears it up for you. Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.