--- title: "Hiding Articles from Public Search Engines" description: "Sometimes you don't want your docs to show up in search results pages. Here's how to discourage search engines from indexing your knowledge base 🤖⛔" url: "https://support.helpdocs.io/article/4bixluru9m-hiding-articles-from-public-search-engines" category: "Managing Content" updated_at: "2026-07-30T14:53:27Z" --- # Hiding Articles from Public Search Engines Having your knowledge base show up in popular search engines like Google and Bing can be a great way to save your customers time and reduce support tickets. But sometimes you *don't* want your docs to show up in search results pages. Here's how to discourage search engines from indexing your knowledge base 🤖⛔ If you have access we recommend using the [HTTP Headers feature](/article/qk30ijnyp1-setting-custom-http-headers) ### Discourage Search Engines but Keep Articles Public If your articles are public it'll always be technically possible for them to be indexed. What you *can* do is discourage search engines. We're going off the [latest information from Google](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710?hl=en). There's no **guaranteed** way to keep your docs public and stop them being added to search results To discourage search engines from indexing your articles: 1. Head to **Settings** > **Code** > **Javascript** 2. Paste `` in the code editor 3. Hit **Save Changes** We also recommend to avoid linking to your articles from other places on the web ### Block Search Engines with Auth If you *don't* need your articles to be public you can block search engines using one of our authentication features. You can check out all the ways over in [our article over here](/article/kX8VqsbWcY-can-i-host-my-internal-docs-in-help-docs).