Removing Pages that Incorrectly Appear in Google Search Results

By default, search engines like Google crawl and index most pages on your live Wix site. You can prevent search engines from crawling certain pages on your site if you don't want them in search results.

If a page still appears in search results after you do this, you can send a request to Google to remove the page. 

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Wix automatically prevents search engines from crawling some pages on your site by adding a "noindex" robots meta tag to them. 

The "Noindex" robots meta tag tells search engines like Google to skip this page when indexing your site. You can see a page's "noindex" tag by viewing the page's source code.

The page types that Wix adds a "noindex" tag to are:

Password protected pages also don't get crawled by search engines because they are not able to access the content of the pages. 

If you don't want a specific page to appear in search results, you can prevent search engines from indexing it by adding a "noindex" robots meta tag to the page. 

You can also stop Google from indexing your page by password protecting it. 

If you've already prevented search engines from indexing your page, it may still sometimes appear in search results. For example, Google may have crawled your site before you prevented it from indexing the page. 

You can send a request to Google to remove the URL using their URL removal tool.