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Indexing Notice Free

Warn when search engines are blocked

Show a warning in the admin bar whenever “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” is ticked.

Download free or read the Indexing Notice docs

Free on WordPress.org, with nothing locked behind Pro.

in the free plugin
Free
last improved in
3.0.7
Performance & Control modules
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Why you need Indexing Notice

It’s ticked on every staging site and easy to forget at launch. Sites have gone live and spent weeks invisible to Google because of one checkbox.

What Indexing Notice does

  • Admin bar warning A notice in the top right of the admin bar while indexing is discouraged.

Where Indexing Notice helps

  • An account manager walking a client through WP Extended on a laptop in a café

    Every launch

    A reminder that the site is still hidden, on every admin screen.

Recent changes

The latest updates to Indexing Notice, from the WP Extended changelog.

Full changelog
  1. v3.0.7 5 Aug 2024
    • improved

      Indexing Notice – Improved design to fit within admin bar height.

  2. v3.0.0 7 Jun 2024
    • new

      Indexing Notice module.

Indexing Notice questions

Indexing Notice documentation

Yes. It is in the free plugin, with no settings to configure.

Pairs well with

All Performance & Control

Get Indexing Notice free

Indexing Notice is in the free plugin on WordPress.org, alongside 34 other free modules you can switch on when you need them.

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