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Rio Guerrero
Rio Guerrero
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August 24, 2026
Question

Does Community AI Search respect meta robots tags?

  • August 24, 2026
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Hi team,

Quick question as we roll out noindex, nofollow on some content restricted to general users in our community.

Does AI Search respect the meta robots tag, or does it index based on permissions/audience settings regardless of what the robots tag says?

Mainly want to make sure noindex, nofollow keeps content out of Google/AI crawlers without also hiding it from general users in AI Search.

Appreciate the help.

 

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    Mithila Jayalath
    Mithila Jayalath
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    August 24, 2026

    ​@Rio Guerrero As per my knowledge community AI Search indexes content based purely on user permissions and audience settings, not on meta robots tags.

    applying noindex, nofollow will successfully keep that restricted content out of Google and external AI scrapers without breaking the community AI Search experience for your permitted general users.

     

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