{"id":2732,"date":"2013-09-26T18:50:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T01:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/107.21.221.225\/ning3help\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2019-08-07T04:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:50:40","slug":"prevent-google-from-indexing-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/ning3help\/prevent-google-from-indexing-your-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevent Google From Indexing Your Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google crawls public Ning Networks along with most other websites on the internet.<\/p>\n

Any public content on your Ning Network \u2013 that is, anything that\u2019s accessible without signing in \u2013 will be indexed by Google and will appear in Google search results.<\/div>\n

If you don\u2019t want any content on your Ning Network to appear in Google search results, the best thing to do is to make your network entirely private. To do this, change the “Who can view” setting for any feature you have created in the Site & Pages manager in your network dashboard to “Members” or any option other than “Everyone”. \u00a0Click \u201cSave\u201d at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n

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You can also\u00a0Edit Your robots.txt File<\/a>\u00a0and specify certain directories for search bots to ignore<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to keep your Ning Network public but prevent Google from crawling it, you can ask them to to exclude your Ning Network. Go to the\u00a0Google Webmaster<\/a>\u00a0help center and follow the instructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google crawls public Ning Networks along with most other websites on the internet.
\nIf you don\u2019t want any content on your Ning Network to appear in Google search results, the best thing to do is to make your network entirely private. To do this, change the “Who can view” setting for any feature you have created in the Site & Pages manager in your network dashboard to “Members” or any option other than “Everyone”. \u00a0Click \u201cSave\u201d at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n

You can also\u00a0Edit Your robots.txt File<\/a>\u00a0and specify certain directories for search bots to ignore
\nIf you\u2019d like to keep your Ning Network public but prevent Google from crawling it, you can ask them to to exclude your Ning Network. Go to the\u00a0Google Webmaster<\/a>\u00a0help center and follow the instructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[524,215,12,525,526,473],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n