Different Approaches to Block Non-Prod URL’s from search indexing
Different approaches to keep away Non-Prod URLs from search indexing.
One of the major SEO concerns while working on the website is blocking the non-production URLs appearing from search engines result(index), the search engines can index the non-prod URL if those URL’s are by mistake linked from live URL’s or exposed through any other external links. The indexing of non-prod URL can cause duplicate content issues that also impact the ranking of live URL’s, the end-user may access the non-production URL instead of the Live URL. This can sometimes lead to a compliance issue if the content bound to compliance and non-live content is exposed to the end-user.
In this tutorial let us discuss the details on how to block the non-prod URLs appearing from search engines.
You can search for site:<domainname> e.g site:www.albinsblog.com to identify whether the specific domain is indexed by the search engine, also you can use some of the third party SEO tools to identify the URL’s indexed in search engines.
