This article explains how to hide published Pages from specific areas of the Newsroom and how to manage their indexation. You can control whether a Page appears on the front page, archive pages, XML feed, search results, and sitemap. It also explains how to prevent search engines from indexing a Page or following its links.
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Use cases for hiding Pages
Hiding a Page is useful when content needs to be published but not fully visible across the Newsroom.
Common scenarios include:
- Publishing an article under embargo. The Page can remain hidden from the Newsroom and archive so visitors are not aware of its existence until it is ready to go live.
- Creating content that should only appear in a feed. For example, you can publish separate Pages for calendar events and hide them from the Newsroom and archive while keeping them available in the XML feed. This feed can then be used on an external events page or integrated into another platform.
- Temporarily removing a Page from search results or the Newsroom without unpublishing it.
Hiding a Page
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To change the Publication settings of an article, go to the Publish Options in the sidebar:
- The Publication settings are on the right side. By default, all checkboxes are enabled, which means that the article will be visible on the Newsroom, in archive pages, feeds, search results and the sitemap.
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Uncheck the areas you want to exclude the article from.
- Click the 'Save' button on the bottom of the page to save your settings.
Managing Page Indexation
- To prevent the web crawlers from indexing select one or both options:
- No Index - Enable this option if you want to prevent the page from being indexed by search engines.
- No Follow - Enable this option if you want to prevent the links on this page from being indexed by search engines.