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How to hide pages from Winnow search results

Sometimes you might want certain pages to stay out of your search results. Common examples:

  • landing pages built for campaigns or SEO
  • overview pages that are less useful than the content they link to
  • pages that should stay visible to search engines, but not to people already browsing your site

Your site platform may not give you much control over this. Winnow does, using a feature we call Search Lenses.

Set up exclusions

Use the Default lens to control what appears in search across your site.

  1. Open "Search Lenses" in the Winnow interface
  2. Open the Default lens

The main text field in the lens editor is where you decide which paths should be excluded from search.

You can:

  • exclude a single page with /specific-page
  • exclude a whole section with a wildcard, for example /blog*
  • add an exception with !, for example !/blog/interesting-post to bring one page back after excluding the whole blog with /blog*

Click "Save" when you are done. Changes apply immediately.

If you want different parts of your site to have different search behavior, read the Introduction to search lenses guide.