{"id":8295,"date":"2020-02-27T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/?page_id=8295"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:22:51","slug":"discourage-search-engines-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/resources\/web-services-standards\/wordpress-help-and-how-to\/discourage-search-engines-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discourage Search Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>User level: Administrator<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While you are populating your site, published (i.e. not draft or private) pages and posts will be viewable to anyone who has the link. 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