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allow search engines from crawling only on production #15153

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion _includes/head.html
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{%- endif -%}
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
{%- if page.sitemap == false or site.GH_ENV == "gh_pages" %}
{%- if page.sitemap == false or jekyll.environment != 'production' %}
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"/>
{%- endif %}
{%- if jekyll.environment == 'production' and site.google_analytics != '' -%}{%- include analytics/google_analytics.html GOOGLE_ID=site.google_analytics -%}{%- endif -%}
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{%- if jekyll.environment == 'production' -%}
User-agent: *

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Once we have proper redirects, we can probably remove all of these (I think these were added when we were still hosting archives, but they also helped to prevent Google indexing archived URLs it found elsewhere with "new" content, but using the "old" URL - not 100% sure though).

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Disallow: /apidocs/v*

Sitemap: https://docs.docker.com/sitemap.xml
{%- else -%}
# Disable all indexing on staging websites and Netlify previews to prevent
# them showing up in search results.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
{%- endif %}