topic Re: Avoid indexing/crawling of landing page in Blog, Website & Page Publishing

Avoid indexing/crawling of landing page

Pikealot — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:21:48 GMT

Hi,

I just build my first landing page - yippie! 🙂

I want to use it only with a small email-campaign and avoid it to be listed in search results.

How do I avoid crawling/indexing?

I read that I should paste "<meta name="robots" content="noindex">" in the header, but where do I find the header for a hubspot landingpage?

The knowledge base indicates that there should be a section for advanced options which includes access to the additional code snippets in the header html, but I don't find this setting in my (free) account.

The only field I seem to have access to is the meta description, but I guess that is the wrong field?!

Thanks for your kind support,

cheers

Holger

Re: Avoid indexing/crawling of landing page

karstenkoehler — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:40:17 GMT

Hi @Pikealot,

Unfortunately, blocking landing pages from being indexed by search engines is only available in HubSpot Marketing Hub Professional and Enterprise (according to this knowledge base article).

Below is the difference between what you're seeing and what you would see on a Professional or Enterprise subscription:

If you want those options, you would have to upgrade. (I don't know of any workarounds.)

If upgrading is not an option, maybe there are small changes you can make to the landing page that would also make it comprehensible for visitors finding the page through search engines?

Best regards!

Re: Avoid indexing/crawling of landing page

Ben_M — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 13:03:25 GMT

Unfortunately seeing you are on the free plan, this is not possible because as you suggest it would require editing the page header. The most you can do to try and keep it not indexed is to not link to it from outside of your email so Google does not try to crawl to it or nofollow any links that go to that page. The latter is more risky as bad search engines that don't follow rules could eventually pick up your page.

Re: Avoid indexing/crawling of landing page

Pikealot — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 20:37:49 GMT

Ok, thanks guys!

Re: Avoid indexing/crawling of landing page

Mannitgon — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:02:14 GMT

If javascript runs, you can create <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> and paste it into your head.