Page indexation is where you tell search engines which pages to list in their results, and which links to ignore, across your whole site from one screen.
Available on the Business plan (or a trial). Use it carefully: setting the wrong pages to noindex can remove them, or your whole site, from Google.
Noindex and nofollow, in plain English
Noindex keeps a page out of search results. Nofollow tells search engines not to pass ranking credit through the links on that page. By default every page is indexed and its links are followed, so nothing extra is added: Limecube only adds a robots instruction when you switch one of these on.
Finding it
Go to SEO Manager › Page indexation.
How the screen works
The pages are shown as a collapsible tree, grouped into sections: Page Manager (all your pages, with blog posts and shop pages nested under their parents), plus Blog Categories and Blog Tags if you have a blog. Open a section with its arrow, or use Expand all / Collapse all at the top. Every row has two tick-boxes, noindex and nofollow. There's no status label: a ticked box means the setting is on.
Setting your pages
- 1Expand the section you need.
- 2Tick noindex and/or nofollow on the rows you want to change.
- 3Click Apply.
The button is labelled Apply (not Save), and it saves the whole tree in one go. There's no separate per-row save, and no 'are you sure?' prompt, so check your ticks before you click.
The same setting lives in Page Settings
You can set this on a single page in the editor instead: open Page Settings › SEO and switch No index / No follow on or off. It's the same stored value, so a change in one place shows up in the other. Turning No index on there asks you to confirm first. New pages are always created indexed; these options aren't offered when you add a page.
Noindex also removes a page from your sitemap
Setting a page to noindex automatically drops it from your XML sitemap. Nofollow on its own does not.
What it does NOT change
Noindex only speaks to search engines. A noindexed page still appears in your own menus, your site search and your breadcrumbs, and still works normally for visitors. Nofollow doesn't add
rel="nofollow" to your links; it's a single page-level instruction. Hiding a page from your menu is a separate setting.Pages that are always kept out of Google
Some pages are set to noindex automatically and you can't change it:
- Page 2 and beyond of any blog or shop listing.
- Every page while your site is still on its temporary Limecube address. The whole site stays out of Google until you connect your own domain and go live.
Good to know
- Turned noindex off but Google still sees noindex? Your site is probably still on its temporary Limecube address. It only becomes visible to Google once your own domain is connected and live.
- The tree shows drafts too, so you can set a page before it's live. That's why its count can differ from the SEO Dashboard's, which only counts active pages.
- Search engines can choose to ignore noindex. Most honour it, but it's a request, not a lock.
- Noindex doesn't stop crawling. Blocking crawlers is a separate job for your robots.txt.
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