Public Space vs. Google and other search engines indexing

[Branislav Randa]

Hello there oh mighty and knowledgeable community members!

Regarding public Space:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/make-a-space-public-829076202.html 

Is the Space when made public indexed by Google and other search engines or not? If yes, can I prevent this from happening, so only people with url can see the public Space?

Thank You!

With best regards

Bryan 

[Liam Green · Accepted solution]

Hi @Branislav Randa 

Welcome to the Community!

As far as I'm aware, the above will work, yes.

Keep in mind though that if it is public others could still share the URL.

Hope that helps,

Liam

[Branislav Randa]

Hey there @Liam

Well, thank You kindly for Your fast reply! And, I'd like to avoid this, since I only want people with URL link to public Confluence that have it, not random "Googlers".

Is there a way that a Confluence page can be public, but not listed?

With best regards

Bryan

[Liam Green]

Hi Bryan

I cannot see that it is possible to stop this through Confluence.

What you could do is manually request that Google remove the specific URL from their indexing using the Google Webmaster tools.

Hope that helps,

Liam

[Branislav Randa]

Hey there @Liam Green

Thank You kindly for Your replies, combined with support from mail, I managed to give a satisfactory answer to boss at company I work for.

Thank You once more!

With best regards

Bryan

[Liam Green]

No problem at all, its why we're here!