AWS Lightsail Wordpress IP address indexed by google

Question

Hi there,

I have an issue as Google has indexed my website address and IP too and its my IP address also showing backlinks in my google search console.

I have made the following change in the .htaccess file to add a 403 rewrite for the ip address: but still its unsolved what should I do?

RewriteEngine On
# Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^00\.000\.000\.00$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Answer

To prevent search crawlers such as Google from indexing your site, you can create a [robots.txt](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro) file in your web root

For example, this will inform all crawlers not to index your website
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```

You can also change your WordPress Privacy settings as per [Optimize Your Site for Search Engines (SEO)](https://wordpress.com/support/seo/)

[https://en-support.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/privacy-settings-public.png?w=1024](https://en-support.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/privacy-settings-public.png?w=1024)

Answer

From my experience, three countermeasures are all needed:

1. Add a WordPress plugin or custom theme code to change the canonical URL link element in the HTML headers of all pages such as:
""
Note that the "type" attribute is omitted due to a bug in some versions of Google.  In some versions of WordPress, the predefined rel_canonical action does this slightly wrong hence the need for code to override it.

2. Change the web server configuration to include the right domain name in a canonical URL HTTP Link header for non-html files such as
'Link: ; rel="canonical">'
Instructions depend on the web server software.

3. Contact the sites that link to your IP address and tell them to link to the right domain name instead.

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