How to ensure that Power BI publish to web view are not indexed by google

[caiocdias]

Hi,

I need to publish a power bi bi view using the "publish to web" feature, however, i need to ensure that this view is not being indexed by google, how can i do that?

[collinq · Accepted solution]

Hi @caiocdias ,

The only way to stop the search engines (and there are many) from indexing your web published report is to add the "noindex" on the web page in the meta data.  (https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/block-indexing)   But, you will have to check that EVERY web crawler honors the "noindex" and doesn't need their own meta tags to ignore a web page.

But, anytime you put something on the web it will be accessible to the world in some way or another - it might not be in search results, but various crawlers will come across it anyway and theoretically somebody could guess at your naming convention so if you really want this "private" you might consider another alternative like embedding the report in your own internal website.