Be found by search engines and AI assistants

Decide per page whether search engines may list it, and for your whole address what AI assistants may read.

01Why it is worth doing

Some pages should stay between you and the people you send them to, and some should be found by anyone who asks. The choice is yours, page by page, and each page tells search engines which it is.

02How you get there
  1. Every page opens for anyone who has its link, and asks search engines to leave it out. You decide per page.
  2. Open the page's Publish step and choose Public under Who can find it. Then publish it, or choose Re-bake live page if it is already live.
  3. A page can be listed once it is live on your own address and its sign-off is current. A page edited after its sign-off stays live, and asks to stay out of search until someone signs it again. Pages on gyrium.page are never listed.
  4. Search engines decide when they visit, and a new page usually takes days to weeks to appear. Public pays off for pages that stay up, such as a contact or a demo page. A page for one event gets its readers from the link you share.
  5. To take a page out again, choose Anyone with the link and re-bake it. Search engines are asked to drop it; how soon it goes is theirs to decide.
  6. What search engines and AI assistants may do on your whole address, a workspace admin sets in Settings, under Search and AI assistants: whether search engines may list public pages, whether AI assistants may read pages to answer questions, and whether AI model training may collect pages. They start on, on and off.
  7. A refusal is a request. Search engines and the large AI companies honour it; an assistant fetching a page because someone just asked for it may not. What nobody may see, keep off the page.
Gyrium, full screen with the menu on the left. A live web page on its Publish step. The choice Who can find it is picked out: Anyone with the link, chosen, which asks search engines to leave the page out, and Public, which lets them list it on your own domain while its sign-off is current. The callout reads: Public lets search engines list the page.
Step 2A web page, Publish · Who can find itDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
Gyrium, full screen with the menu on the left. Settings is open on Search and AI assistants. The explanation is picked out: a page can be found through search only on your own address, only when it is Public, and only while its sign-off is current; pages on gyrium.page are never listed. The callout reads: Only on your own address, only Public, only while signed off.
Step 3Settings, Search and AI assistants · When a page can be listedDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
Gyrium, full screen with the menu on the left. A live web page on its Publish step. The Re-bake live page button is picked out, under the choice of who can find the page. The callout reads: A change takes effect when you re-bake the page.
Step 5A web page, Publish · Re-bake the live pageDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
What this uses

See it hold your own work.

The pilot takes a small number of organisations at a time. Bring what you already have.