How to remove forms from Google search results?

  • katebosch
    Asked on June 20, 2019 at 10:44 AM

    I just found out that one of my JotForms is available when anyone Googles “professional organizer client questionnaire". I had not intended for this (or any) of my forms to be public. How can I ensure that my forms are private?

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  • John Support Team Lead
    Replied on June 20, 2019 at 12:41 PM

    Unfortunately, there is no way to protect the forms from search engines. If the form is linked from a public page, a search engine bot can find it and list it. 

    What you can do is instead of sharing the form URL directly, put the form code on your site, and then share that with others. Then you can use robots.txt to make sure that the form is not listed by search engines.

    You may refer to these articles on how to:

    Embed-a-Form-to-a-Web-Page

    Block content from Google search results

    Create a robots.txt file