Exclude pages from search engine search

In TypoScript there is the option of storing the metadata for the page header. If you want search engines to search a page, set the following value:

page.meta.robots = INDEX,FOLLOW

In the page properties of each individual page, you can set a checkmark so that a page is not searched. However, this tick only means that the page will not be searched within the TYPO3 search:

If you change the script from above as follows, the page will no longer be searched by external search engines:

page.meta {
  robots = INDEX,FOLLOW    
  robots.override = NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW 
  robots.override.if.isTrue.field = no_search 
}

The external search engine and the TYPO3 search, e.g. indexedsearch, therefore do not search this page.

However, NOFOLLOW also means that the search engine robot does not follow the links on this page. If you want to exclude the page from indexing but do not want to lose the internal linking, write NOINDEX,FOLLOW instead.

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Updated: 09.04.2025