Your website created via Springly appears in search engines such as Google or Bing, and you'd prefer it didn't.
This article explains how to "de-index" it.
- Why is your website indexed on search engines?
- How do you stop it from being indexed?
- Ask search engines to de-index your pages
Why is your website indexed on search engines?
In Springly, as soon as your website is published and its pages are visible to everyone, it is automatically "indexable" by search engines. This means that Google's bots and other search engine crawlers can visit your site and index it, meaning it will appear in search results.
This doesn't happen right away, but over time your site will start appearing when users search for your nonprofit's name in a search engine.
How do you stop your website from being indexed?
There are two ways to do this.
Put your website in maintenance mode
You're still building your site and don't want anyone stumbling across it.
You can put it in maintenance mode while you work on it. Maintenance mode prevents your pages from being indexed by search engines.
To put your website in maintenance mode, go to Website > Settings and theme. In the field at the top of your interface, switch from "Active site" to "Site under maintenance".
Manage the visibility of your website menus and pages
You can also make all or some of your website pages non-public by adjusting the visibility settings for your menus and pages.
We explain how to do that here.
Ask search engines to de-index your pages
You've completed one of the two steps above, but your site is still showing up in search results. That's normal: de-indexing isn't instant.
You'll need to wait for search engine bots to crawl your site again before it gets de-indexed.
It is however possible to speed things up by following this link https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/ask-google-to-recrawl?hl=fr
By doing so, Google will recrawl your site sooner than expected. That said, it is not instantaneous.
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