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Stop google from indexing my JIRA

Juris Bergmanis
Contributor
March 5, 2018

Hi,

Our JIRA (login page, AboutPage.jspa, JiraCreditsPage!default.jspa and forget password link) is showed in google.com when we type our JIRA www address. We wan`t to remove it.

We did the thing what is mention here >> https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/removing-a-jira-instance-from-google-results-396300011.html but after 2 weeks of waiting, JIRA is still being in google.com

Is there something else we can do? Maybe we need to write to google to remove the content from google?

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Andy Heinzer
Atlassian Team
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March 12, 2018

Could you clarify if your instances is using a robots.txt file?   If you are using this, there is some notes in these KBs that the <noindex> tag on individual pages might not work correctly on instances where the robots.txt file is being employed.

Rather than remove a robots.txt file that is successfully preventing a number of Jira pages from being indexed, I would recommend trying the steps recommended by Alexander in https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-do-I-stop-Google-from-indexing-JIRA-work-tickets/qaq-p/391656

If you already have a robots.txt file in place, I think the next steps would be to manually request that Google remove the specific URL from their indexing using the Google Webmaster tools.

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Juris Bergmanis
Contributor
March 7, 2018

Branden McElveen, please tell me in which file or files I need to update metatag in JIRA?

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somethingblue
Atlassian Team
Atlassian Team members are employees working across the company in a wide variety of roles.
March 6, 2018

Hi Juris,

Take a look at the knowledge base article from Google titled Block search indexing with 'noindex':

You can prevent a page from appearing in Google Search by including a noindex meta tag in the page's HTML code, or by returning a 'noindex' header in the HTTP request. When Googlebot next crawls that page and see the tag or header, Googlebot will drop that page entirely from Google Search results, regardless of whether other sites link to it.

Important! For the noindex directive to be effective, the page must not be blocked by a robots.txt file. If the page is blocked by a robots.txt file, the crawler will never see the noindex directive, and the page can still appear in search results, for example if other pages link to it.

Using noindex is useful if you don't have root access to your server, as it allows you to control access to your site on a page-by-page basis.

Take a look at the linked article for specific instructions and let us know if that helps.

Cheers,

Branden

Autentica March 7, 2018

Yes I read that article, but JIRA is not a basic webpage. There is no such main index.php.

In which file in JIRA I need to add that metatag in <head> ir order to get ir working?

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