To check if any staging or UAT (User Acceptance Testing) sites are indexed by search engines, you can use the following methods:
For Shopify:
- Go to your Shopify admin panel.
- Navigate to Online Store > Preferences.
- Scroll down to the Password protection section and ensure that your staging site is password-protected. This will prevent search engines from indexing it.
- Additionally, you can add a
robots.txt
file to your staging site to disallow all search engines from indexing it. Unfortunately, Shopify does not allow direct editing of therobots.txt
file, but you can use an app like Robots.txt Editor to achieve this.
For WordPress (WooCommerce):
- Log in to your WordPress admin panel.
- Navigate to Settings > Reading.
- Scroll down to the Search Engine Visibility section and check the box that says Discourage search engines from indexing this site. This will add a
noindex
directive to your site. - Additionally, you can edit your
robots.txt
file to disallow all search engines from indexing your staging site. You can do this by going to SEO > Tools > File Editor if you are using an SEO plugin like Yoast SEO.
To verify if any staging or UAT sites are indexed, you can perform a Google search using the following query:
site:yourstagingdomain.com
If any results are returned, it means that your staging site is indexed and you need to take action to prevent this.