{"id":2570,"date":"2019-09-08T09:07:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T09:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2024-01-06T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T15:44:40","slug":"step-by-step-guide-to-keeping-your-site-hidden-from-google-until-its-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/step-by-step-guide-to-keeping-your-site-hidden-from-google-until-its-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Step By Step Guide To Keeping Your Site Hidden From Google Until It\u2019s Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article are for people who are updating or building a new website on their live domain, and don\u2019t want search engines to index their site for a variety of SEO reasons. Google doesn\u2019t like the idea you may be trying to get double exposure for your website by simply duplicating your content on multiple sites.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a walkthrough of the settings you should choose when you want to keep your site from being found by search engines. Yoast SEO makes it SUPER EASY AND FREE to get the correct settings. Here are the steps:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong>\u00a0Install\u00a0Yoast SEO<\/a>\u00a0into your theme. Make sure to activate it after downloading! After installed, find SEO on your left Menu, Goto Dashboard > Open the configuration Wizard.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re unsure how to do this\u00a0first step,\u00a0you should reach out to a web design agency for some help. If you\u2019re cool with installing plugins, this article is for you!<\/p>\n

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2.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Choose the Staging Environment<\/p>\n

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3.<\/strong>\u00a0Choose the type of site it is. Pretty straight forward\u2026 thanks Yoasty ? The Yoastest with the mostest.<\/p>\n

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4.<\/strong>\u00a0Is the site for a company or a person? Then when we add the name of the site,\u00a0we usually abbreviate the name of the company, then\u00a0Staging Site<\/strong>, so when we have multiple sites open\u00a0browser tabs, it\u2019s easy to see\u00a0the sites title.<\/p>\n

One less thing to remember come lunch time, err.. launch time, sorry, I\u2019ve been dreaming about a custom turkey sandwich from Raley\u2019s deli (and it\u2019s 11pm as I\u2019m writing this. oh boy).<\/p>\n

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5.<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019ve been leaving them blank. Why take the chance, right? I LOVE this screen though, load it up with all the connectors out to the world. Hey\u00a0Joost de Valk (he created Yoast), you\u2019re really cool.\u00a0I\u2019m Joost up now! Whoo!
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6.<\/strong>\u00a0Change all the Post Type\u2019s to\u00a0Hidden<\/strong>. This will keep Google from indexing them. You may have more or less Post Types listed. It depends on what WordPress them you are using.<\/p>\n

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7.<\/strong>\u00a0Are you going to have multiple writers contributing to your blog? Check yes or no.<\/p>\n

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8. \u00a0<\/strong>Here\u2019s where the fun and excitement really begins. Get your Google on. Make Google love your site.\u00a0Open a Gmail account<\/a>,\u00a0create a Google My Business listing<\/a>, create a Google + account, \u00a0create a Google Analytics account, then link up\u00a0Google Search Console and submit your sitemap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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9.<\/strong>\u00a0According to Google Jedi Master Matt Cuts, just\u00a0go with the a dash<\/strong>. Here\u2019s Matt talking about it in this\u00a0video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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10.<\/strong>\u00a0Voila! That\u2019s it. You\u2019ve been Yoastified. Now Google and other Search Engines will not begin indexing your site. Make sure you reverse all this stuff once your site is ready!!!<\/p>\n

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This article are for people who are updating or building a new website on their live domain, and don\u2019t want search engines to index their site for a variety of SEO reasons. Google doesn\u2019t like the idea you may be trying to get double exposure for your website by simply duplicating your content on multiple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11145,"href":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/11145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingmerchants.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}