Google Indexes Submitted document

  • Resolved senwright

    (@senwright)


    5 years, 12 months ago

    Hello,
    I have an employee resume form on our website and I have been notified that their submitted .doc and files are visible on Google. How do I remove their personal information from showing up on Google? This is fairly urgent!

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  • Plugin Author Matthew Muro

    (@mmuro)

    Hi Senwright,
    All WordPress attachments uploaded to the wp-content/uploads folder are public. VFB Pro uploads to a subfolder by default. If you do not want these attachments to be indexed, you will need to use a plugin like Yoast SEO to edit your robots.txt file to exclude the uploads folder from being indexed (go to SEO > Tools > File Editor). Once Google reindexes your site, they will no longer display any of your uploads when searched.

    The correct code for robots.txt to block VFB Pro uploads will look something like this:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
    Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/vfb/

    Hope this helps.

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