{"id":602,"date":"2020-04-11T06:41:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T06:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.candidthemes.com\/blog\/?p=602"},"modified":"2022-01-14T04:07:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T04:07:41","slug":"discourage-search-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.candidthemes.com\/blog\/discourage-search-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Discourage Search Engines from Indexing Your WordPress Site in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you want to know how to discourage search engines<\/strong> from indexing your website? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the WordPress website, it is really easy to discourage search engines from indexing the website. WordPress comes with an inbuilt option to disable search engine visibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this post, we will show you the detailed steps to discourage search engines visibility of your WordPress website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s get started, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why we need to discourage search engines from indexing?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It is recommended that if your website is under maintenance or in staging, at that time you need to discourage the search engine visibility. Staging is a place where we develop the website before moving to the main domain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides that, if you don’t want to index that particular website in search engines, at that time, you can also do that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main motto is to restrict your website for indexing in search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steps to Discourage search engines from indexing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Follow the below steps,<\/p>\n\n\n\n