diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Change Log for reflex-dom-pandoc
 
+## 0.6.0.0
+
+- Hide footnote references from search engine results (#10)
+
 ## 0.4.0.0
 
 - Fix task list checkbox styling margins by using Semantic UI checkbox.
diff --git a/reflex-dom-pandoc.cabal b/reflex-dom-pandoc.cabal
--- a/reflex-dom-pandoc.cabal
+++ b/reflex-dom-pandoc.cabal
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 cabal-version: 2.2
 
 name:           reflex-dom-pandoc
-version:        0.4.0.0
+version:        0.6.0.0
 synopsis:       Render Pandoc documents to HTML using reflex-dom
 description:    Please see the README on GitHub at <https://github.com/srid/reflex-dom-pandoc>
 homepage:       https://github.com/srid/reflex-dom-pandoc#readme
diff --git a/src/Reflex/Dom/Pandoc/Footnotes.hs b/src/Reflex/Dom/Pandoc/Footnotes.hs
--- a/src/Reflex/Dom/Pandoc/Footnotes.hs
+++ b/src/Reflex/Dom/Pandoc/Footnotes.hs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import Control.Monad.Reader
 import Data.List (nub, sortOn)
 import Data.Map (Map)
+import Data.Text (Text)
 import qualified Data.Map as Map
 import qualified Data.Text as T
 import Reflex.Dom.Core hiding (Link, Space)
@@ -57,9 +58,15 @@
 
 renderFootnoteRef :: DomBuilder t m => Int -> m ()
 renderFootnoteRef idx = do
-  elClass "sup" "footnote-ref" $ do
-    elAttr "a" ("id" =: ("fnref" <> T.pack (show idx)) <> "href" =: ("#fn" <> T.pack (show idx))) $ do
-      text $ T.pack $ show idx
+  elNoSnippetSpan Map.empty $ do
+    elClass "sup" "footnote-ref" $ do
+      elAttr "a" ("id" =: ("fnref" <> T.pack (show idx)) <> "href" =: ("#fn" <> T.pack (show idx))) $ do
+        text $ T.pack $ show idx
+  where
+    -- Prevent this element from appearing in Google search results
+    -- https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_tag#data-nosnippet-attr
+    elNoSnippetSpan :: DomBuilder t m => Map Text Text -> m () -> m ()
+    elNoSnippetSpan attrs = elAttr "span" ("data-nosnippet" =: "" <> attrs)
 
 sansFootnotes :: DomBuilder t m => ReaderT Footnotes m a -> m a
 sansFootnotes = flip runReaderT mempty