Businezz Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Hi, I want to block WHMCS from search engines, i basically use it as a client area for paying invoices installed in subdomain. I have separate website in the main domain. Currently this is what i use: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> But it doesn't help, it's been a while and my links still are showing up on search engines, especially login page it's all over the place on bunch of different languages, even i disabled language selection in the settings. I appreciate any useful tip and suggestion for blocking it from SEOs. Thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yggdrasil Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, Businezz said: Hi, I want to block WHMCS from search engines, i basically use it as a client area for paying invoices installed in subdomain. I have separate website in the main domain. Currently this is what i use: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> But it doesn't help, it's been a while and my links still are showing up on search engines, especially login page it's all over the place on bunch of different languages, even i disabled language selection in the settings. I appreciate any useful tip and suggestion for blocking it from SEOs. Thanks! Malicious bots that hide as robots will not respect your robots files. Some legit robots might also completely ignore your rules. It takes a while for your site to get de-indexed from major search engines. Try this rule in a robots.txt file instead: User-agent: * Disallow: / Edited March 1, 2021 by yggdrasil 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Businezz Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 6 hours ago, yggdrasil said: Malicious bots that hide as robots will not respect your robots files. Some legit robots might also completely ignore your rules. It takes a while for your site to get de-indexed from major search engines. Try this rule in a robots.txt file instead: User-agent: * Disallow: / So i have to remove nofollow from <head> and update only robots file? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yggdrasil Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Businezz said: So i have to remove nofollow from <head> and update only robots file? Yes, you should use a robots.txt instead of the header. Most search engines do not read meta tags on headers anymore. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Businezz Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 Just now, yggdrasil said: Yes, you should use a robots.txt instead of the header. Most search engines do not read meta tags on headers anymore. Thanks! Will try this. I hope it'll work 🙂 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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