Overview

The following support article demonstrates how to prevent search engines from indexing your development site until it is ready to be made live. This is to help prevent duplicate content issues and avoid placeholder and/or incomplete data being indexed and associated with your website.

Instructions

  1. Log into Plesk via your Conetix Account
  2. In Plesk click WordPress on the left to access the WordPress Toolkit
    how to prevent search engines indexing wordpress development site
  3. In the Toolkit you may need to expand the option for the site, to do this you can click on the domain name.
    how to prevent search engines indexing wordpress development site
  4. Then, in the WordPress Tool Kit under Tools look for the option for Search engine indexing and click the slider to the left to disable it.
     how to prevent search engines indexing wordpress development site
  5. Following this process will prevent Search engines (like google.com or bing.com) from indexing and listing your site.
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