Hiding SharePoint Application page (_Layouts Pages ) For Public Facing Site

For publishing site it is recommended to hide “_layouts” pages from crawling by search engines. When you create SharePoint public facing site using “publishing site” template it activates the feature “ViewFormPagesLockDown”. This feature prevents users from opening any of pages from “_layouts” folder. But this feature is not available in…

Google Analytic Opt-out

Recently we created a SharePoint public facing site. Site was launched and Google analytic was also enabled. Then we got into in situation when our client wanted that we do not access the site through browser else Google analytic information will trace our visit. Even though, parallel to this we…