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How to stop search engines listing documents from Azure Blob storage

I have a few documents stored in a Azure Blob Storage that I don't want to be listed on Google/Bing Search results. How can I do that?

Solution

  • Try these steps

    1. Add the x-robots noindex tag to the HTTP headers of the document file.
    2. Verify the x-robots noindex tag has been applied
    3. Tell Googlebot to “Fetch & Render” your document in Google Search Console
    4. Request that Google crawls/indexes your document
    5. Wait for the document to drop out of the index.

    For more details, refer to https://geoffkenyon.com/how-to-remove-pdf-files-google/