# Hide a page from search engines

To hide a page on a published Confluence site from search engines, open the site in Capable Sites, choose **Pages**, select the page, open **More details** and tick **Hide from search engines (noindex)**. Select **Save metadata**, then Update and Promote. The page stays on your site for visitors, but search engines are asked not to list it.

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## Before you start

* You need to be a Confluence admin or a collaborator on the site.
* If nobody should see the page at all, keep it off the site with the `capable-sites-exclude` label instead.
* Protected and staging sites are never indexed anyway, so this only matters on a public live site.

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## Steps

1. Open Capable, choose **Sites**, open your site and choose **Pages**.
2. Select the page. Its Page metadata panel opens on the right.
3. Open **More details**.
4. Tick **Hide from search engines (noindex)**. Tick **Don't follow links on this page (nofollow)** as well if you want.
5. Select **Save metadata**.
6. On the site's **Overview**, select **Update**, then **Promote**.

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## What happens next

The page carries a noindex instruction, and search engines drop it the next time they visit. It is still on the site, in the site's own search and in its sitemap, and anyone with the link can open it.

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## Related

### [SEO and metadata](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/seo-and-metadata.html)

Every per-page SEO setting.

### ["noindex" page still appears in the site's own search and in the sitemap](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/noindex-page-still-appears-in-the-site-s-own-search-and-in-the-sitemap.html)

Why it still shows in site search.

### [Keep a Confluence page off a published site](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/keep-a-confluence-page-off-a-published-site.html)

Take it off the site entirely.

### [SEO for your Confluence site](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/seo-for-your-confluence-site.html)

More SEO guides.

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_On the site, off the search results._