Public Access to Confluence without Google Index possible?

[Christopher Scheel]

I've read a lot of articles here, but didn't really find the answer. Is it possible to find the confluence pages / articles with google, when they are set to public / anonymous access? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It can be.  Google can see the pages and would index them.  But a lot of people add a "robots" file to their server which asks search engines not to index (or only index parts of the site) - Google and most other search engines respect that.

[Christopher Scheel]

Wow, thanks for the quick answer!! But how does the robots file on my server has an influence on the pages in confluence? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It has no influence on confluence pages.  It's a file with a set of rules in it for telling search engines what you would like them to limit their indexing activity to.