Statuspage - disabling search engine indexing

[Martin Rusyniak]

Hi, a quick question, my statuspage has been public and indexable (by search engines).

I have now set it "Hidden" in the Page info configuration by enabling: Hide my status page from search engines.

Questions:

• Is Atlassian / SP.io contacting search engine APIs to include/exclude the page as configured?
• How long does it usually take to propage these changes?

Thank you

[Jesse Klein · Accepted solution]

Hello Martin,

This is Jesse from the Statuspage support team. Thanks for your questions! When you hide your page, we are essentially adding a meta tag to no index or follow:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

Looking at this it seems that Google doesn't have a specific time when it recrawls a page but the changes would take effect on the next time the page is recrawled. They also have a request you put out to recrawl the page.

Hopefully, that information helps you out with your questions. Take care for now.

Regards,
Jesse

[Martin Rusyniak]

Okay, thank you :)