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    Site Status


    Take your site offline and set your preferred domain


    To open the Site settings page:

    1. Click Site settings

    Site settings

    Site status

    1. Click Site status

    2. To hide your site, select Offline. Your site will be invisible until you change the status to Online

    3. If you have more than one domain name, select the preferred one. This will be the domain name shown in search engines

    4. If you have more than one domain name, set Always redirect to the preferred domain  and any traffic arriving from a secondary domain will be redirected

    5. Click Save

    Site status

    Site caching

    Google and other search engines may cache your site. If you have published the site and it has been indexed by Google  or other search engines, then taking the site offline will not remove any cached version of the site.




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