no index – no follow and entire site

  • Resolved jbergen

    (@jbergen)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    hello,

    We have a copy of our website for testing purpose. i don’t want the testing site to be indexed/shown in google.

    Editting all the pages is no option because i restore te production site to the testing site monthly. (and i add a user testuser with admin rights)

    is there a easy way to do this within the yoast plugin?

    production site: topzorggroenveld.nl
    test site: stage.topzorggroenveld.nu

    many thanks in advanced.
    Jeroen

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello @jbergen,

    Thanks for reaching out!

    You can set the entire test site to not be crawled or indexed by search engines. In WordPress admin, navigate to Settings > Reading > Search engine visibility and check the box to ‘Discourage search engines from indexing this site’. Though it is up to search engines to honour this request.

    Thread Starter jbergen

    (@jbergen)

    thanks for the fast reply,
    i checked the box.
    the sitemap.xml is still generated.
    should this also be turned off?

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    @jbergen,

    You can also disable the Yoast SEO XML Sitemap feature in WordPress dashboard > SEO > General > Features > XML Sitemaps and ‘Save Changes’.

    Thread Starter jbergen

    (@jbergen)

    this solved the problems

    ??

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