# "noindex" page still appears in the site's own search and in the sitemap

**What you are seeing**

A "noindex" page still appears in the site's own search and in the sitemap.

---

## Why it happens

The noindex setting only adds a tag for external search engines. It does not remove the page from the site's search index, the sitemap, or llms.txt.

---

## What to do

If a page must not be discoverable at all, exclude it with capable-sites-exclude rather than noindex.

---

## Related

[Links to some Confluence pages send visitors to an Atlassian login screenLinks pointing at Confluence pages that are not published in the site are left as the orig](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/links-to-some-confluence-pages-send-visitors-to-an-atlassian-login-screen.html)

[Uploading a logo or cover image fails with "Failed to upload image"Images are stored as attachments on a dedicated Confluence asset-store space, and that spa](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/uploading-a-logo-or-cover-image-fails-with-failed-to-upload-image.html)

[Content problemsThe rest of this family.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/content-problems.html)

---

_Found it? Good._