Halie2

Thank you, will do.

creedon, thank you so much for your kind reply. To confirm, when you say "the meta tag should do the trick," do you mean adding <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> to the homepage? Any chance you could point me to the right place on the homepage to add it? My understanding was that we can't add that to a homepage, only *other* individual pages or the entire site (which I'm worried could mess up search results etc etc.). Thank you for the information!

Hi there, This thread was helpful, thanks Paul & Creedon. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post a follow up question but was hoping you might see it. I want to try your advice and I'm curious how long it would take for my site to disappear from google search entirely? If I re-enabled the Crawling in, say, 3-9 months, would it be reasonable to hope that the site would be restored on Google Search? It's a portfolio site that just competes for my unique full name. I ask because I want to temporarily use an image on my homepage, but I don't want it to appear in Google forever. I haven't uploaded the photo yet so it hasn't been crawled. Curious if you know workarounds to block the URL of the photo from Google search? I've already read Help and reached out to Customer support, and I think my options so far are below. Thank you for any insight you'd be willing to provide. Halie Potential options: 1. Hide my entire site from search results. Then re-enable when I put up the final photograph that I don't mind being crawled. I'm just worried that my site SEO will be forever scorched. A little disappearing for a few months is totally fine though. 2. Create a hidden webpage that's not the homepage, just make it look like a homepage and put the image there. Share that page directly with people as a "work in progress homepage." 3. Put the image on the public homepage but do some kind of URL blocking on the Google side?? Would need to learn more about that... https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9689846?sjid=11711422244368323563-NC