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  • January 16, 2021 at 12:19 pm #1272920
    mosaic

    If I put my domain name and the keyword ‘news’ into google it comes up with the page I’ve linked in my private content which is completely blank. I have no idea where it’s getting the /page/8/ part from. Can you help me understand why this extra page is being generated? How can I remove it and are there any other blank?

    January 16, 2021 at 1:09 pm #1272922
    thinkjarvis

    If you password protected private content then the page is still visible in google and on the sitemap, just that the page content is set to private with a password? Is this what you mean?

    If the page is not supposed to be live on the website at all. Set it to draft instead of private. This will remove it from the sitemap and make it so no one can publicly access it.

    I have assumed you are using a sitemap generator of some sorts.

    If you have the site registered with Google webmaster tools (Google Search Console) you could remove the page from the index manually using the removals tool. This would prevent the page showing in Google searches assuming google accepts the removal request.

    January 16, 2021 at 1:14 pm #1272923
    mosaic

    Thanks for your reply. I don’t have any pages that are nested under that main page. So I imagine this must be a page that has been created automatically somehow? I have certainly never created any page with the name ‘page’ or any numbered pages like the one titled ‘8’.

    January 17, 2021 at 5:57 pm #1273110
    Victoria

    Hi mosaic,

    That is a normal pagination function, I’m not sure though why Google decided to index that page.

    Best regards,
    Victoria

    January 17, 2021 at 11:21 pm #1273169
    mosaic

    But why is it creating blank pages for google to index?? This is quite an annoying function.

    January 19, 2021 at 5:24 am #1273555
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Thanks for the update. The URL in question is valid, since the base page has pagination, please see private. Why Google has selected to show or index that particular page of the pagination, I can’t say unfortunately. If you don’t want the URL structure to work this way, then please remove pagination from the page in question.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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