How do you prevent templates from being indexed/listed?

[William Davis]

I think william means something like this:

disallow: https://www.domain.com/CTGY.html

in the robots.txt file.

i don't think its an issue but just to be safe, you can use Web Master Tools to verify that a category USING that page template can still be followed and indexed.

Correct!

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

I think william means something like this:

disallow: https://www.domain.com/CTGY.html

in the robots.txt file.

i don't think its an issue but just to be safe, you can use Web Master Tools to verify that a category USING that page template can still be followed and indexed.

[lesliekirk]

How about robots.txt disallow statement for the category in question file?

It's not a category - it's the Page Template (code CTGY name Category Display). This issue seems to have started when MM10 started letting you view a Page Template just by clicking the View icon. Maybe it's been a problem all along but this time I have encountered the Template Page being listed in Google.

[William Davis]

I'm not sure if this has come up before but I've noticed that Page Templates such as CTGY are being picked up by the search engines as https://www.domain.com/CTGY.html. If you put "noindex,nofollow" in the template it will prevent every category from being listed. I suspect this started becoming an issue when we were able to start viewing the Page Templates. This particular site is not using the Marketing Feeds Sitemap, it uses an external sitemap app.The link is not in it nor is it in the SMAP page (thank goodness). It would seem Google is finding it all on it's own. So how do we stop it?

How about robots.txt disallow statement for the category in question file?

[lesliekirk]

I'm not sure if this has come up before but I've noticed that Page Templates such as CTGY are being picked up by the search engines as https://www.domain.com/CTGY.html. If you put "noindex,nofollow" in the template it will prevent every category from being listed. I suspect this started becoming an issue when we were able to start viewing the Page Templates. This particular site is not using the Marketing Feeds Sitemap, it uses an external sitemap app.The link is not in it nor is it in the SMAP page (thank goodness). It would seem Google is finding it all on it's own. So how do we stop it?