Will 'private' status prevent Woocommerce products to be indexed by search engines?

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I'm currently disabling some Woocommerce product from my site and for this, I set them as private.

I'd like to know if 'private' will also set the no index meta as true?

I'm currently disabling some Woocommerce product from my site and for this, I set them as private.

I'd like to know if 'private' will also set the no index meta as true?

• woocommerce-offtopic
• private
• search-engines
• noindex

Share Improve this question asked Aug 26, 2019 at 20:40 Rogério DecRogério Dec 19933 silver badges1212 bronze badges 2

• 1 If you are using the default Wordpress method of marking a post/page private, NO. This only prevents that post/page content from being viewable. It will prompt the user for a password. So, Google (and other search bots) would still index it, but only that prompt. No content would be indexed, but no index would not be added.. – Mike Baxter Commented Aug 26, 2019 at 23:23
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If you are using the default Wordpress method of marking a post/page private, NO. This only prevents that post/page content from being viewable.

Google (and other search bots) will not find private pages. Only logged in blog Editors and Administrators can see Private pages.

So, while Wordpress will not add the meta to block bots, your private pages still will be invisible to Search Engines.

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