How to hide Media files from search engines

  • Unknown's avatar

    Hi,

    One of my pages is only accessible with a password and I’d like to allow authorized users to download resources from that page. So what I’d like to know is whether it is possible to hide Media files (.pdf and .png) from search engines.

    Thanks in advance,
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  • Unknown's avatar

    Hi there,

    No, we don’t have any way to guarantee that media files will not be found by search engines. As long as your site is set to visible, the media files will be included in their crawl. You may want to consider hosting those sensitive files with a third party such as Amazon S3 or Dropbox as a work-around.

    I apologize for the inconvenience.

  • Unknown's avatar

    ok. Never tried Amzaon S3, will do. Thanks for the suggestion.

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