How to Control Search Engine Indexing for WordPress

The WordPress Management interface can be used to quickly and easily advise search engines that you do not currently want to be indexed. The feature is especially useful when your website is not ready to go public or when the WordPress installation is a staging version of your public website.

How it works

The search engine indexing option in WordPress Management discourages search engines from indexing your website. The feature turns on an option in WordPress that adds the noindex and nofollow tags to your website’s header. The robots.txt file is either added or updated to include a Disallow directive.

Caution

This feature does not guarantee that your website will not be indexed by search engines. It is simply a suggestion that search engines should not index your website. If you do not want your website accessed at all, we recommend using the WordPress Management password protect option.

How to disable search engine indexing

1. Log in to cPanel and search for WordPress Management:

2. Click on WordPress Management to open the dashboard:

   

3. Toggle the Search engine indexing switch to the Off position:

   

How to enable search engine indexing

1. Log in to cPanel and search for WordPress Management:

2. Click on WordPress Management to open the dashboard:

   

3. Toggle the Search engine indexing switch to the On position:

   

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