Exclude WP Domain from Search engines without affecting Yoast / Frontity site

[dejangeorgiev]

Hello Frontity team,

Do you have any idea on how can i exclude the WordPress to be detected on search engines, without affecting Yoast or the Frontity domain?

Example:
Here i got first the WP domain over the frontity domain in the search results.

Also this can be recognized by Google as a duplicated content, which is not really recommended.

Thanks for helping.
Best,
Dejan

[Divaksh]

I too noticed this last week. But I thought I did something wrong will check documentation then didn’t get time.

[mburridge]

Ensure that ‘Discourage search engines…’ is disabled in Settings -> Reading in the WP admin.

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However, this doesn’t guarantee that the site won’t be indexed by search engines, so you could use a theme that doesn’t render any content

You could either a custom theme or a theme designed for headless such as Nude.

A custom theme could simply consist of just the bare minimum that WordPress needs, i.e. a styles.css file and an index.php file. The index.php file can just have a wp_die() statement or echo a “Nothing to see here” type of message.