I need to scrub the Google index clean of my forms

  • teknomath
    Asked on September 17, 2020 at 11:11 AM

    We use Jotform as a sub-component of our product, not as standalone forms. Consequently, I don't really want anyone to google "habitnu jotform" (HabitNu is our product name) and get a list of all my forms. This would hurt our branding by causing confusion.

    But that's what has happened. Go google "habitnu jotform" and you'll see what I mean.

    I need to remove all of these references from the Google index. I know I can do this just by adding <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> to each form's page, then wait for Google to weed them out of its index. But I don't have access to my form's <head> element, so I can't do this myself.

    Can you help me? Can you add (or show me how to add) the meta-noindex element to all of my forms?

  • Richie JotForm Support
    Replied on September 17, 2020 at 12:45 PM

    Please note that it is not possible to protect the forms from search engines if it is shared publicly.

    What you can do is instead of sharing the form URL directly, you may 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.

    Hope this information helps.