Add option to exclude pages from Google search from SEO setting in pages/modules

[jamiekatalyst]

• Start Date: 2018-10-19
• Owner: TBC

Summary

Currently, we can hide pages from the navigation but clients often have the expectation that this also hides the results from search engines.

Motivation

To allow users to create pages within the existing site that can be used for internal purposes or directly shared with a subset of users without risk that the content will be indexed and returned in search results.

Detailed design

TBC

Drawbacks

TBC

Alternatives

Open to any suggestions for how this could be best implemented.

Unresolved questions

TBC

[Obversity]

@jamiekatalyst Sounds like a good idea!

Worth discussing how this might interact with any kind of hidden / publish state.

We might want pages that:

• are accessible by the public and search engines (normal page behaviour)
• are accessible by people directly by url but not search engines
• are accessible by admins only (i.e. 'unpublished')

Can we think of any other useful states to account for that 90% of our clients could make use of?

[jamiekatalyst]

Another one, but not relevant to all clients would be:

• are accessible by people directly by url but not search engines or site search