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This guide illustrates the importance of controlling search engine access to your WordPress website. By checking the ‘Search Engine Visibility’ option in the ‘Settings > Reading’ section and enabling ‘Search Engine Visibility: Discourage search engines from indexing this site,’ you can prevent search engines from indexing your content. This can be useful for staging sites, private content, or when you’re not ready to share your website with the world.

Steps

  1.  Login to your wp-admin | https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin
  2. Settings > Reading | https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php
  3. Check Search Engine Visibility: Discourage search engines from indexing this site
  4. Save
  5. Search engines will not crawl your site

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