Opt out of web search indexing

[ChelseaRozek]

Like StoryMaps allows you to, it would be nice if you could opt your hub site out of web search indexing so that google doesn't display it as a result. we would prefer users to find our site through the site it's embedded in for more context.

[AndrewTurner]

Thank you for this suggestion. You can do this now in Hub through a different method using Meta tags.

In the Site layout editor, in the sidebar for 'Settings', click on 'Meta Tags'. 
Then add this tag

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

Save and publish the layout. When search engines crawl the page, this tag will be added to the HTML and the site will be blocked from the indexers.

You can see an example like on our Team's hub site https://dc.esri.com

[ChelseaRozek]

@AndrewTurner wonderful! thank you for the clear explanation. I'll give it a try