Can search engines index authenticated pages?

Kirby 2 Questions 🤔
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I’ve successfully added authentication to my site (thanks to this thread Authentication, private pages direct urls), but I’m wondering if I need to worry about Google and other search engines scraping the content on these pages. Is there anything I need to do to prevent indexing for password protected pages (both text and images), or are they “safe” because of the login requirement?

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Search engines cannot access password protected pages and I don’t think they index them either. To make sure those pages don’t get indexed, you can also add a robots.txt file. More information here.

Note that if a page is password protected, it doesn’t mean that you files are as well. Check out this cookbook recipe on how to protect your assets.

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you could also put a checkbox field your blueprint files such as

noindex: 
  label: No Index if ticked
  type: checkbox

in your header section

<?php if($page->noindex()->bool(): ?>
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
<?php endif ?>
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