Hiding Custom Post Type from Google?

If you are using an SEO plugin such as Yoast, it automatically adds all Custom Post Types (and Taxonomies) to the sitemap that is used by Google & other search engines.

You will need to explicitly exclude them from the sitemap e.g in Yoast, this is under the “Post Types”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”Taxomonies” tab in the “XML Sitemaps” settings page.

Also don’t forget to remove the links from Google through Webmaster Tools – otherwise you have to wait for Google to re-index your site.

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