interstellarhaze Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Site URL: https://www.smartcoolingsolutions.com/ Hi, I would like to hide my entire squarespace website from search engines like google and bing, not just specific pages of the website. Is there a way to do it? Thanks in advance. Link to comment
creedon Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 No. The only way to hide a site on SS is not publish it on SS. paul2009 1 Find my contributions useful? Please like, upvote, mark my answer as the best ( solution ), and see my profile. Thanks for your support! I am a Squarespace ( and other technological things ) consultant open for new projects. Link to comment
paul2009 Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 1 hour ago, interstellarhaze said: I would like to hide my entire squarespace website from search engines like google and bing, not just specific pages of the website. You can temporarily hide a site during the build process by setting Site Availability to Private or Password Protected. For more information see Publishing or hiding your site. Perhaps I misunderstood your question because it would be very unusual to want to hide a website indefinitely. Can you explain what you are trying to achieve? creedon 1 About: SQSP User for 17 yrs. Circle Leader since 2017. I value honesty, transparency, diversity and good design ♥. Work: Founder of SF Digital, building Squarespace Extensions to supercharge your commerce website. Content: Links in my posts may refer to SF Digital products or may be affiliate links. If my advice helped, you can thank me by clicking one of the feedback emojis below. I love coffee too. Link to comment
interstellarhaze Posted May 16, 2022 Author Share Posted May 16, 2022 41 minutes ago, paul2009 said: You can temporarily hide a site during the build process by setting Site Availability to Private or Password Protected. For more information see Publishing or hiding your site. Perhaps I misunderstood your question because it would be very unusual to want to hide a website indefinitely. Can you explain what you are trying to achieve? Hi, You did not misunderstand the question. I wish to have the website accessible without a password, but I want to share the website only with specific people/organisations. I have an active interest in not being available through search engines. Thanks. Link to comment
Solution paul2009 Posted May 16, 2022 Solution Share Posted May 16, 2022 40 minutes ago, interstellarhaze said: I have an active interest in not being available through search engines. Assuming you are on a Business Plan or above, you can hide the entire site from search engines by adding a noindex tag to the Code Injection Header (in Settings > Advanced) with the following code snippet: <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> It is worth remembering that whilst this directive requests that search engines do not index your page, it does not guarantee it. It also does not guarantee that a search engine will deindex the page if it has already been indexed. However, once Google recrawls a page and sees the directive, it should remove the page from their index. Of course this could take some time. Does this help? Please give feedback by clicking an icon below ⬇️ interstellarhaze 1 About: SQSP User for 17 yrs. Circle Leader since 2017. I value honesty, transparency, diversity and good design ♥. Work: Founder of SF Digital, building Squarespace Extensions to supercharge your commerce website. Content: Links in my posts may refer to SF Digital products or may be affiliate links. If my advice helped, you can thank me by clicking one of the feedback emojis below. I love coffee too. Link to comment
interstellarhaze Posted May 16, 2022 Author Share Posted May 16, 2022 I added the line, but I notice something weird when opening the drop down menu. Briefly I see the line I added appear on the top left corner of the page. Please check the screenshot. Link to comment
creedon Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 It appears that you've entered the tag twice. One is formatted properly. The other is not. Remove this text. meta name="robots" content="noindex" Keep this tag paul2009 provided. <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> Let us know how it goes. interstellarhaze and paul2009 1 1 Find my contributions useful? Please like, upvote, mark my answer as the best ( solution ), and see my profile. Thanks for your support! I am a Squarespace ( and other technological things ) consultant open for new projects. Link to comment
interstellarhaze Posted May 17, 2022 Author Share Posted May 17, 2022 13 hours ago, creedon said: It appears that you've entered the tag twice. One is formatted properly. The other is not. Remove this text. meta name="robots" content="noindex" Keep this tag paul2009 provided. <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> Let us know how it goes. Yes found it. The wrong line I had added through the home page advanced menu. Solved now, thanks. creedon 1 Link to comment
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