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How to stop Archived spaces being indexed by Google

Julie Bateman

Hello

We are going to allow our vast Confluence help centre site to be indexed by the search engines. We have some Archive spaces but don't want them indexed as its old content.

Will editing robots.txt No Index, No Follow on the top page be enough to stop Google and others indexing an Archived space?

I note:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/archive-a-space-284368719.html

(info) Archiving a space has no effect on search results of external search engines. For example, a public space will still appear in Google search results.

But really wonder why it would be built in to allow something that's archived to be indexed?

Accepted answers

Diego_88dj6o

Hello there!
As specified in our documentation Julie, even after archived a Space can come up in search engines such as Bing, Google and Yahoo. Since the indexing is not tied to Confluence itself, the application has no control on what the engines index.
We need to configure this manually using a robot.txt file. This should be enough to stop Google and the others from indexing your pages.