Add some UI hint for CMS collection page => prevent publishing: true

Publishing help SEO
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For now it is very hard to handle/orginaze this.

Sounds minor but if you forgot to disable collection page with a lot of items - it could make a lot of SEO problems (Google search console Coverage errors. Google BOTS try to scan empty pages. Index empty pages and so on).

UI example from adobe photoshop

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VOTE: CMS => Collection page settings => Publish settings | Webflow Wishlist

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Hi there!

To prevent search engines from indexing Collection pages and avoid SEO issues with empty pages, you can use the Sitemap indexing toggle in your Webflow project settings. This method is more effective than using robots.txt because it adds a “noindex” meta tag directly to your pages, providing clearer instructions to search engines and working even if the pages were previously indexed.

To disable indexing for Collection pages:

  1. Open your project settings
  2. Navigate to the SEO tab
  3. Find the Collection page you want to exclude
  4. Toggle off “Include in sitemap and allow indexing”

This setting will add a noindex meta tag to your Collection pages while keeping them accessible to users, effectively preventing search engines from including them in search results.

Hopefully this helps! If you still need assistance, please reply here so somebody from the community can help.

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The problem is the i set collection page “publish setting” to false but no way to know the page is blocked by the site page Tree (Some icon of “hidden eye” or any other idea could be very helpfull).

For example on photoshop when you block layer you get hint icon

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For now i add "*" for collection names. "team *"

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I am trying to disable indexing on a collection I created for tags. Obviously I want the collection pages published so when a user clicks on a tag it takes them to a page with all the related posts, but because the tag names are similar to static pages on the site, I don’t want the tag collection pages to be indexed. Under the SEO tab in site setting, I only see a global site switch, not a way to prevent indexing for a particular collection. How can I prevent the “tag” pages from being indexed?

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In general “why not” to index tag pages (Better for SEO).

Example:
https://yoast.com/tag/ai-seo/

I don’t think it is possible (To publish collection page and noindex + exclude from sitemap).
I do not find the option @WebflowAIModerator mention above.

You can add under page setting:

<meta content="noindex" name="robots">

Or by robots.txt

“The problem”: Overtime you will get Google search console Coverage errors/warnings (conflicts sitemap VS robots.txt or meta-noindex).