When you sit down at your computer and do a Google search, you're almost instantly presented with a list of results from all over the web. Google gets these results by sending bots to discover new and updated pages to be added to the Google index - this is the process known as 'crawling'.
We have a Hidden feature available that will prevent Google from scraping your product pages and they will not show as product cards on your site landing page, and won't be indexed by Google. If this is what you would like to do, it's important that you set your product to hidden prior to publishing it and make sure it remains hidden.
If you publish a product prior to making it hidden, Google will have likely already crawled it for indexing. It can take time for Google to recrawl your site. This means Google will be indexing your pages when you don't it want to.
In this instance, you can ask Google to recrawl your site. This is the best way to have Google reflect your recent site changes.
If you want Google to stop indexing your entire Thinkific site (your additional pages, site landing page, etc.) then you should add a noindex meta tag to your page HTML code, which can be applied as follows:
- Go to Design Your Site
- Select Theme Library
- Select the 3 dot menu and click Edit Code
- From there choose Snippets > meta_tags
- Insert the following text under 'Site-wide meta tags'
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"> - Remember to save the file!
You can learn more about editing meta tags here and see here to learn more about your theme and how to access it: Custom Themes (For Developers)