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In this article
  • Allowing search engines to index your site
  • Preventing search engines from indexing your site
  • FAQs
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  2. Promoting your site
  3. SEO (get found on Google)
  4. Site Visibility in Search Results
  5. Managing Search Engine Indexing for Your Site

Managing Search Engine Indexing for Your Site

In this article
  • Allowing search engines to index your site
  • Preventing search engines from indexing your site
  • FAQs
Search engines like Google and Bing index your site's content to display it in search results. You can choose to enable search engine indexing, prevent it, or check your site's indexing status directly from your site's SEO settings.

Allowing search engines to index your site

Wix sites are search engine friendly. We guarantee that all of your site content can be crawled and indexed by search engines (e.g. Google and Bing) whether your site is upgraded or not.
You can choose whether or not to allow search engines to index your site in your SEO Settings. It's important to let search engines index your site if you want it to appear in search engine results. 
Note:
Wix sites are also open to crawling by AI engines and search engine bots (e.g., Googlebot, Bingbot, and others).

To enable search engines to index your site:

  1. Go to SEO & GEO in your site's dashboard.
  2. Scroll down to Tools and settings.
  3. Click SEO Settings.
Selecting SEO Settings in your site's dashboard
  1. Make sure the Let search engines index your site toggle is enabled.
A screenshot of enabling the Let search engines index your site setting.
Need help getting your site found in search results?
Check out the Wix SEO Setup Checklist for a step-by-step plan designed to help improve your site's SEO. 

Preventing search engines from indexing your site

Search engines like Google crawl and index your site pages so they can appear in search results. You can prevent search engines from crawling and indexing your site if you're not ready to go public.

To prevent search engines from indexing your site:

  1. Go to SEO & GEO in your site's dashboard.
  2. Scroll down to Tools and settings.
  3. Click SEO Settings.
Selecting SEO Settings in your site's dashboard
  1. Disable the Let search engines index your site toggle to prevent search engines from indexing your site.
A screenshot of disabling the Let search engines index your site setting.
  1. Click Hide Site. 
Tip:
Want to choose which site pages appear in search results? You can prevent search engines from indexing specific site pages in your editor. 

FAQs

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