How to Turn Off “Discourage Search Engines” in WordPress | Muhaiminul Islam Sajib | SEO Quick Fixes
If your website isn’t showing in Google, this setting might be the reason. In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you how to turn off the “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” option in WordPress so Google can crawl and index your pages.
Quick Steps:
Log into your WordPress dashboard
Go to Settings → Reading
Scroll to Search Engine Visibility
Uncheck “Discourage search engines from indexing this site”
Click Save Changes
After disabling it, request indexing in Google Search Console for faster results.
⚠️ Important:
This setting adds a noindex directive to your entire site. If it’s enabled, Google will not rank your pages.
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