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When a developer builds a website, any website, and is doing so on a public server, they will normally set their site to ‘no-index’. This is a tag that tell Google and other search engine robots ‘DON’T LIST MY SITE ON YOUR SEARCH RESULTS’.
Reversely, you’ve just had your website put live, a few weeks go by, and you can’t find it at all anywhere in google despite googling site:mysite.com. It may be worth to check whether you haven’t accidentally omitted allowing Google to now index your website!
It’s a simple html tag added to the head of each page – it looks something like this:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">If you are not familiar with what to do or where to place this code, most CMS platforms have a simple ‘checkbox’ that enables / disables this functionality.
WordPress No-Index Robots Settings:
Navigate to SETTINGS > READING. Go down and check (or uncheck) the ‘discourage search engines’ checkbox (usually will be at the bottom of the page).
Joomla No-Index Robots Settings:
Navigate to SITE > GLOBAL CONFIGURATION. Go down to the ‘meta data’ box and where it says ‘robots’, adjust the dropdown next to it as required.
Magento No-Index Robots Settings:
Navigate to SYSTEM > CONFIGURATION > DESIGN. Navigate to and open up the ‘HTML HEAD’ box.
Find the ‘default robots’ box and adjust the dropdown box next to to it as required.
