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How do I stop Google from crawling my WordPress site?
Disabling search engine indexing for WordPress
- Go to Settings -> Reading in your WordPress Dashboard.
- Mark the “Search Engine Visibility” option to disable search engine indexing.
- Click the blue “Save Changes” button to save your changes.
How do I remove WordPress from my Google search?
Use Google Remove URLs Tool to remove WordPress pages To remove a page temporarily from Google results, you can use the Remove URLs Tool. Here just enter your site’s property and page address for it to get removed. Remember that Google only temporarily removes your page. After a while, it will crawl the page again.
How to prevent Google from indexing certain web pages?
Oftentimes, it is necessary to deliberately prevent search engines from indexing certain pages from your website to boost SEO. One study found that organic search traffic increased by 22% after removing duplicate web pages, while Moz reported a 13.7% increase in organic search traffic after removing low-value pages.
How to stop Googlebot from indexing specific posts?
By default, Googlebot will index a page and follow links to it. So there’s no need to tag pages with content values of INDEX or FOLLOW. When using the robots meta tag on your website, please note that: Meta tags are not case sensitive.
How does a search engine index a website?
Search engine spiders will crawl your whole website to cache your website’s pages for their index. In general, most website owners are happy for search engines to crawl and index any page they want; however there are situations where you would not want pages to be indexed.
How can I remove Google from my search results?
Select Temporarily Hide and enter the page URL. Afterwards, choose Clear URL from cache and temporarily remove from Search. This hides the page from Google search results for 90 days, and also clears the cached copy of the page and snippets from the Google index. For more information, check out Google’s guide here.