How to prevent a product on WooCommerce from being indexed by Google?

hivolih247
February 4, 2020
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I’m referring to specific product not all products. I’ve googled and can’t find any answer to this.

Answers

- ReigelGallarde
- February 4, 2020 at 7:39 am
- 0 votes
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there are a few solutions, maybe you’d like to use meta tags noindex. It would be something like this:
```
function product_robots_noindex_meta_tags() {
    global $product;
    $no_robots_products = array(12,13,14); // list of product ids
    if ( $product && in_array($product->get_id(), $no_robots_products) ) {
        echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />';
    }
}
add_action('wp_head', 'product_robots_noindex_meta_tags');
```
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- FrancescoMantovani
- February 4, 2020 at 8:55 am
- 0 votes
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There are many ways to skin a cat.

You can use the Robot.txt.

You can disallow a certians URLs:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
```
Or certains file type:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /pdfs/ # Block the /pdfs/directory.
Disallow: *.pdf$  # Block pdf files from all bots. Albeit non-standard, it works for major search engines.
```
Or images:
```
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /images/cats.jpg #Block cats.jpg image for Googlebot specifically.
```
Or Gifs:
```
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /*.gif$
```
You can use PHP:

Paste this between <head> and </head> if you want to disallow a certain post (change “ID” with your post ID), (You have tons of plugins that can help you customise the Header without need of codeing):
```
<?php if ($post->ID == X) { echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">'; } ?>
```
You can even block multiple ones using the || operator:
```
<?php if ($post->ID == X || $post->ID == Y) { echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">'; } ?>
```
Or you can block a certain post title:
```
<?php if(is_single('Hello World')): ?>
```
Multiple post title, always using the || operator:
```
<?php if ( is_single('big-announcement') || is_single('new-update-coming-soon') ) ) : ?>
```
After you applied the change:

After you applied the change wait a few days. Then go to Google Webmaster and check what pages are indexed and what are not indexed.
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