Hi everyone! Is there a way to make all of the materials in an existing folder of our Site Assets to be non-indexable on Google and other search engines? We have proprietary materials that are hosted on our site that are currently indexing on Google if you know how to search for them.
It's my understanding that you can add a new folder to Site Assets and categorize it as "Secure," but I haven't found a way to mark an existing "Standard" folder type to be "Secure." We'd like to avoid having to add a new folder and migrate our materials, which would require us to manually re-link thousands of links in our web library module.
Thanks for your help!
I think there there are (at least) 2 ways:
1. you add the folder(s) to the robots.txt
<code>Disallow: /folder-url/*</code>
<code>2. You change the setting of the folder using an SQL update statement or by using SSMS</code>
To change a "normal" to a "secure" folder you have to create a secure folder and then move the documents there using the Resource Manager and not the Windows Explorer on the Server directly.
This causes two issues:
Happy DNNing! Michael
I also think it's worth noting that telling any search engine to not index any content on your website is only a request.
It's long been known (discovered) that if a search engine like Google can see the content, it will always index anything it sees, but only serve that index when it's not specifically removed via Robots.txt and/or in the Google Search Console. I'm not sure if anyone outside of Google knows for sure, but it's assumed (hoped) that this helps to improve the search results in general, but also from your website specifically.
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