Drafts Visible to Public

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I noticed that draft pages are being indexed by Google and are available to the public. Here's an example you can see:

https://www.pnwu.edu/%21drafts/1047/our-facilities...

How can I prevent this? Thanks.

 
stewblack23 replied on at Permalink Reply
stewblack23
Hey Jamesonwatkins

Odds are there is something up with your page view permissions. For now let make the page you shared not viewable to the public. Go to Dashboard > Site Map, find the page in the site map and click on the page. A popup menu will appear. Then select "Permissions". A dialog box will appear and you will uncheck the "Guest" checkbox. This will make the page unviewable until you are ready to publish it. But you as a admin can still view and edit the page when you are logged in. But remember when you are ready to make it live you will have to check the "Guest" checkbox again.

If you are using the sitemap.xml file on your site you can also exclude any page from the file. That will also help with page not specified in the sitemap.xml showing up in a Google search.

Hope this helps.