Hi. I’m trying to remove the staging site of my project. I already turned off the webflow subdomain indexing but it is still appearing in google search. Can someone help me? Thank you! See the images below:
Yep unfortunately you need to turn that off before Google indexes it.
The problem is that when you turn this on and your site is already indexed, Webflow creates the meta noindex nofollow tag but it also blocks all search engines with robots.txt.
According to Google engineers, that means that Google will never see the noindex tag and existing indexed pages will likely be “stuck” in search results for some time. Google will not update or remove them.
I have a few workarounds detailed here;
You’ll want to noindex or block the staging domain in robots.txt to keep it out of search results. I had a similar issue and found that cleaning this up early really helps. If you’re curious how long it might take for Google to reflect those changes in rankings, this post breaks it down well: How Long Does It Take to Rank in Google? And How Old Are Top Ranking Pages? - Crowdo Blog . Really helped set expectations for me.
Hey @Quaylekat have a look at my writeup link in the previous post.
This is Method #1 in my guide- you’d need to do hostname-level GSC authorization using a META tag, which should still be able to do.
Not certain what that means; generally you want to keep to keep your staging fully functional so you can continue using it in your site development. I wouldn’t recommend “fake” temporary changes that you then have to undo before you publish your next live update. Similarly, scripted solutions aren’t the best approach; many crawlers won’t execute them, but Google is generally good at it.