Prevent Google from Indexing Plugin

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  • Resolved Lance

    3 years, 11 months ago

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    I use the full – paid – suite of products from Astra, Their WP Portfolio plugin has a feature that loads all of their demo websites; just like here: Demo sites

    All of these sites have an entry with the image of the site in their plugin “WP Portfolio” along with a link that will load the demo on click. I use a plugin to load these site on a page.

    When I use google to search for my domain name it lists a WP Portfolio item and clicking on the link opens a page with no image.

    How to tell RM to not have Google index WP Portfolio? The SEO Titles & Meta page seems to be where I could do this but I’m concerned I’d remove the page that displays the demos on my site.

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  • Todd

    3 years, 11 months ago

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    Hello,

    Thanks for getting in touch with us.

    If you are using a particular post type for adding demo content, you can make it noindex from WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > CPT.

    If you wish to prevent Google from indexing pages that contain the word demo, you can add this text to your robots.txt file at WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Edit Robots.txt

    User-Agent: *
Disallow: /*demo*

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Lance

    3 years, 11 months ago

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    I updated the image link with what the Portfolio looks like. 104 images that the page that I do want indexed is pulling from.

    To try and clarify. Google is crawling the Portfolio, which is NOT a page; it’s a plugin. So are you saying I have to go thru 104 pages and set noindex?

    Alberto

    3 years, 11 months ago

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    Hello,

    No, since “Portfolio” is a custom post type (like in my case one called “Custom”), you can set all of them as no-index like I show you in the following screencast: https://i.rankmath.com/LLuTYQ

    Looking forward to help you.

    Lance

    3 years, 11 months ago

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    Thanks Alberto!

    Seems like in today’s SEO world one needs to be a data scientist just to please Google.

    Michael Davis

    3 years, 11 months ago

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    Hello,

    LOL. Not really but it is always important to learn the technical aspects of how indexing works.

    If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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