Search Engines Visibility

  • Resolved myid

    (@myid)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hello.
    Is it possible to switch the choice of the Search Engines Visibility after the installation? You see, at the beginning I’d like to discourage search engines from indexing the site because I’m still doing a test; only after the test was proven good, I’d like the website to be indexed. I looked for this possibility in the Back-End, but I didn’t find anything.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • Hi @myid

    Please go to Settings >> Reading section in your WordPress Admin Area and select “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” – https://prnt.sc/tvpupb ??

    In addition to what is said above on changing WP settings, you can also request Google (most used search) to not to index.

    If you are testing a specific Page/Post and you just don’t want that particular URL to be indexed, you can do do that. You can go to Google Webmaster Console add the site and change the setting to stop Google bots from visiting the site.

    I found it took less than 24 hours for Google to remove URLs when I requested under Google Webmaster Console to remove them. This is helpful if some or all of the site pages are already indexed and showing up on Google. You can test if pages are already indexed by going to Google search and type, site:YOUR_SITE_URL.COM. It will list all the pages already indexed by Google.

    Same applies to Bing.

    Thread Starter myid

    (@myid)

    Ah, right, thank you both. ??

    Happy to help. ??

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