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For example, you don't want your staging or preview environments to be indexed by search engines as they will cause duplicate content issues as well as confuse end-users. If you need to disable specific pages from being indexed, refer to the [Disabling Page Indexing](https://nuxtseo.com/docs/robots/guides/disable-page-indexing) guide. ## [Disable Indexing Completely](#disable-indexing-completely) In some cases, such as internal business tools, or sites that are not ready for the public, you may want to disable indexing completely. You can achieve this by setting the `indexable` option to `false` in your site config. ``` export default defineNuxtConfig({ site: { indexable: false } }) ``` ## [Handling Staging Environments](#handling-staging-environments) Staging environments are great for testing out code before it goes to production. However, we definitely don't want search engines to index them. To control the indexing of these sites we will make use of the `env` Site Config, which defaults to `production`. .env ``` NUXT_SITE_ENV=staging ``` Nuxt Robots will disable indexing for any sites which don't have a production environment, so feel free to set this to whatever makes sense for your project. ## [Handling Multiple Domains](#handling-multiple-domains) If you deploy the same app to multiple domains (e.g. `mydomain.com` and `test.temp-domain.com`), you can disable indexing for specific hosts at runtime using a Nitro plugin. server/plugins/robots-domain.ts ``` export default defineNitroPlugin((nitroApp) => { nitroApp.hooks.hook('robots:config', (ctx) => { const host = ctx.event?.headers.get('host') if (host?.includes('staging') || host?.includes('test')) { ctx.groups[0].disallow = ['/'] } }) }) ``` This works for both SSR and prerendered sites. For static sites, set `NUXT_SITE_ENV` in your CI build instead (see [Handling Staging Environments](#handling-staging-environments)). See the [Nitro Hooks](https://nuxtseo.com/docs/robots/nitro-api/nitro-hooks) documentation for more details on the `robots:config` hook. ## [Verifying Indexing](#verifying-indexing) To verify that your site is not being indexed, you can check the generated `robots.txt` file, it should look something like this. ``` User-agent: * Disallow: / ``` A robots meta tag should also be generated that looks like: ``` ``` For full confidence you can inspect the URL within Google Search Console to see if it's being indexed. **Key points:** Use `site.indexable: false` for complete blocking, `NUXT_SITE_ENV` for staging environments. [Edit this page](https://github.com/nuxt-modules/robots/edit/main/docs/content/2.guides/1.disable-indexing.md) [Markdown For LLMs](https://nuxtseo.com/docs/robots/guides/disable-indexing.md) Did this page help you? 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