Hello, my site is not showing up in google search. I recently updated and redesigned the site and only the staging for the previous version is showing up in results.
Live site is here
Please help 
Did you follow the extensive guidance that Google provides in Search Central?
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As Jeff says, getting your site to appear in Google search results is all about doing the hard hard of SEO.
Regarding removing your webflow.io site from SERPs, that’s another thing. I was just thinking for doing a video on this because I did the same thing for a client minutes ago.
If you don’t mind being in a Youtube howto video, happy to do it for free. It would be a good demo to showcase to others. Drop me a message if you’re interested.
I haven’t yet. I’ll need to do some more digging into that to optimize everything for sure. I’m hoping a simpler issue to understand why my old site’s webflow.io is appearing in results.
Appreciate the response, I can provide more info. Real newbie here
hi there, is removing the webflow.io result a pretty simple thing to fix?
Not massively complex but there’s an art to it.
Drop me a message ( click my name ) if you want help on that.
I’d use it as an instructional video to help others as well, because I see this problem often here.
As a side note, you’ve unpublished your webflow.io staging site so it’s showing a 404. That’s not the approach you want if you’re trying to carry your SEO over to your custom domain. I’d publish that straightaway.
I got the same problem. Would you be able to help?
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Hi Artur,
I’m seeing a lot of people with this problem recently, so I’ve added my current favorite approach, which is #3 in this lesson. So far it’s the best at solving the issue while preserving the link’s SEO value as much as possible.
I’d still be keen to make a video of the process, so I’m happy to implement this for you at no cost. If you’re interested in that, send me a message and I’ll give you the details.
Either way the instructions should be pretty clear to follow here-
Can I see your website, please?
Hello Michael, I’m having the same problem as well for my clients. We disabled indexing of the Webflow staging subdomain but it is still showing up on Google. Is there a way for Google to recrawl/reindex? Also your useful website I viewed the other day is down so I can no longer see 
Not while you have indexing disabled. You’re blocking the bots entirely.
Which one? All are up- I was doing some heavy-duty reverse proxy testing yesterday though, for awhile the CSS handler was offline.
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Thank you Michael I see your website is up again, really appreciate sharing your knowledge. We’re testing your method 3 approach - we created a fake site to redirect to the main site. Would this meta tag prompt Google to recrawl and push the custom domain site to the top search instead? Let’s say Google successfully recrawls - would we unpublish the fake site in the future?
Actually as I was typing this message, it looks like your method is showing promising signs! The user-declared canonical URL and google-selected canonical from Google Search Console match the actual custom domain after following your instructions. Yesterday, it was pointing to the Webflow domain. Hoping that’s a good sign.
The meta in #3 is just a redirect. The signal is, “we’ve moved this page, replace your url with this one”. We’re using a META here because you would need a hosting plan to use Webflow’s redirects feature.
Exactly.
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Your method totally works, thank you!! Ranking back at #1 with the correct custom domain
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Hi @memetican, I’ve run in to this issue also with my own portfolio site, so I’ve followed step 1 in your guide, thankyou! It’s currently processing the request🤞🏼. I’m wondering though why I’ve only had this issue on this site and not previous sites, because I wouldn’t have switched the previous sites to stop indexing before publishing the staging url, yet google searches for those previous sites produce the custom url’s as desired. Has something changed with Webflow’s indexing default setting to cause the issue or there something I might have done differently this time that I’m not aware of ?
I’m not aware of any changes on Webflow’s side around this feature, but Google indexing has changed massively in the past 9 months.
I have no insight into the inner workings of those changes, but I do seem to be seeing this problem more often recently. Perhaps Google ranks base domains? If webflow.io itself had a score, and that score has increased in the past year, it might promote our the subdomains as well.