Your website built with Springly is showing up in search engines like Google or Bing, and you'd rather it didn't.
This article explains how to remove it from search results — a process known as "deindexing."
- Why is your website appearing in search engines?
- How do you stop it from being indexed?
- Asking search engines to deindex your pages
Why is your website appearing in search engines?
In Springly, as soon as your website is published and its pages are publicly visible, it becomes automatically "indexable" by search engines. This means Google's bots and other search engine crawlers can find it and index it — in other words, make it show up in search results.
This doesn't happen overnight, but over time your website will start appearing when people search for your nonprofit's name.
How do you stop your website from being indexed?
There are two ways to do this.
Put your website in maintenance mode
If you're still building your website and don't want anyone stumbling across it, you can enable maintenance mode while you work. This prevents search engines from indexing your pages.
To enable maintenance mode, go to Website > Settings and Theme. At the top of the page, switch the status from "Active site" to "Site under maintenance."
Adjust the visibility of your website's menus and pages
You can also restrict access to all or some of your website's pages by adjusting the visibility settings for your menus and pages.
Asking search engines to deindex your pages
You've completed one of the steps above, but your website is still showing up in search results. That's normal — deindexing isn't instant.
You'll need to wait for search engine bots to crawl your site again before it's removed from results.
You can speed up the process by following this link: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/ask-google-to-recrawl?hl=fr
This prompts Google to recrawl your site sooner than it otherwise would — though it still won't happen immediately.
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