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    How do I prevent search engines from indexing certain pages?

    As you may know, search engines will 'spider' through all your pages on your website and make a note of the content of each page. This is great for your store pages, as customers can search on words that are on your pages, but there may be certain pages in your store that you do not want search engines finding.

    1. Go into the 'Layout' tab that of the section that you want hide from search engines.

    2. Locate the 'Overall Page Layout' field and make a mental note of the name of the current overall page layout.

    3. Click in the 'Overall Page Layout' field and select '<New>' from the bottom of the list.

    4. In the 'Based On' field, select the overall page layout that is currently being used by the section.

    5. In the 'Name' field enter 'Hidden From Search Engines'.

    6. Click 'OK' and then click 'Apply' to make this section use the new layout.

    7. Now change to the 'Design' tab and select the overall page layout.

    8. Within the <head> section of the layout, enter the following line:

    <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="none">

    You can now specify this file as the overall page layout for any pages that you do not want indexed.
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