April 8, 2020
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How to disable DAM Assets Google search / Search Engine in AEM ?

Question: How can we make PDF files in DAM Assets non-searchable from search engines ?

Answer: You have to implement a checkbox for the assets, Now your next task should be to implement a event handler / workflow / scheduler which will update the robots.txt file dynamically.

Example: Whenever user check/uncheck the custom implemented checkbox, it will get store in JCR. Now any of event handler / workflow / scheduler will take that stored property and updated the robot.txt file accordingly.

For PDF we do not have <meta> tag like we have for pages.

Here is more for you:
1) Use robots.txt to block the files from search engines crawlers:User-agent: * Disallow: /pdfs/ # Block the /pdfs/directory. Disallow: *.pdf # Block pdf files. Non-standard but works for major search engines.

2) Use rel=”nofollow” on links to those PDFs<a href="something.pdf" rel="nofollow">Download PDF</a>

Complete Documentation: http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

AEM Community Thread Link 1, Link 2


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