I wonder what’s the best place to disable indexing (set noindex) on the entire site, and I mean across the board. Is it enough to simply insert NOINDEX in Discourse header (I wonder if that would apply to all pages/URLs generated by the site)? P.S. And for misbehaving crawlers such as some search …

How to disable indexing by crawlers

codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) 2016 年 2 月 9 日午前 11:14 3

There is a boolean site setting for this, search for “index” or “robots”.

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