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How To Hide A WordPress Page From Google

How to Hide a WordPress Page From Google. Sometimes you may require to exclude a post/page from looking in Google search results as it is not related to your website’s content, to defend your privacy from unwanted users.

In this article, you will learn how to hide a WordPress post/page from Google without harming your site’s overall (SEO) Search Engine Optimization.

Why Need to Hide a WordPress Page from Google?

As we know Search engines like Google support website owners to exclude content (Posts) from search results. You can hide WordPress blog posts and pages that don’t have any importance to the wide public such as posts you might have to design for website ownership confirmation.

The different situation where excluding WordPress pages from search results is useful if you have a membership website. You can protect/hide the profile pages of your users from appearing on search engines.

Protecting content from Google is also effective if your website is under development, and you want to share a sneak show with your audience. This way Google won’t index an uncovered website in its search results.

Besides that, excluding pages that have special or raw information supports protecting your privacy and stops private information from falling into evil hands.

Easiest Way to Hide a WordPress Posts from Search Engines
This process is the easiest and suggested for trainees.

You can hide a WordPress post from Google by using a WordPress plugin like Rank Math. It’s one of the most popular SEO plugins used by 1+ million websites. First, you need to do is install and activate the Rank Math plugin.

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