Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
By default Rank Math should be set to index on the robots meta of every page and post unless the website SEO visibility option is enabled in your Settings:
When you create the staging website, could you please confirm if the current live version is set to noindex? Please note that when copying a website together with its database, all the meta settings are copied as well and that includes the robots meta of all the pages and posts.
Looking forward to helping you on this one.
Hi!
When I create a staging site the live site does still index as normal. It is only the staging site that gets a noindex with yoast.
Hello,
Rank Math does not currently have any code to automatically set a website to noindex as this is normally handled by the host. Cloudways is the first host I have come across that does not automatically prevent indexing of staging sites. You will need to manually set your website to noindex.
I have asked a developer to look into whether it is possible to implement an automated solution for this.
Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have questions.
Ok, thanks. Please let me know the response from the developer. Or should I ask cloudways about this. Is this implemented on their end or yours?
Hello,
I’ve checked the Cloudways blog and it looks like the leave the responsibility to no-index the website to the site owner/manager. However, please check with them as they may have a hosting setting to do it for you.
In the mean time we’ll look into implementing an automated solution and get back to you as soon as we have a response.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Ok, I have talked to cloudways about it and they said that there aren’t any settings for them to do as long as you don’t have any direct actions you can have them do. They said that the issue is up to you to solve.
Hello,
We have already shared this with our developer and they have taken note of your suggestion. Let’s hope that such a feature will be added to our plugin in the future.
We thank you so much for your input on this one.
Please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
