Title: Google index question
Last modified: March 5, 2023

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# Google index question

 *  Resolved [word6w](https://wordpress.org/support/users/word6w/)
 * (@word6w)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-index-question/)
 * So I think I successfully create a staging site. I understand that google won’t
   index stage site because of login credential like having domail.com/12345 subdirectory…
   however, what happen to all the images and file under wp-content such as domain.
   com/12345/wp-content/image….Those images and files are publicly found and so 
   google can still see it, would google index those images if they are still can
   be found and not gated behind a login page? I don’t want duplicate contents issue.
   Thank you!

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 *  Plugin Contributor [alaasalama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alaasalama/)
 * (@alaasalama)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-index-question/#post-16532064)
 * Hi word6w!
 * You can add these lines in robot.txt file to block Googlebot from indexing the
   images of the staging site:
 * User-agent: Googlebot-Image
   Disallow: /
 * Check [this guide](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/prevent-images-on-your-page#robotstxt)
   for more information.
 * Also, you shouldn’t worry about the images duplication issue, according to [this article](https://www.plytix.com/blog/pictures-duplicate-content-seo),
   there is no penalty for that.
 * Thanks,
 * Alaa
 *  Thread Starter [word6w](https://wordpress.org/support/users/word6w/)
 * (@word6w)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-index-question/#post-16533581)
 * So I deleted the stage site, why can I still see my product page as public. I
   thought once the root folder is deleted, all the pages in the stage site should
   be deleted right? for example: domain.com/123456/?product=item still visible.
 * Creating the stage site under a domain subdirectory is very damaging to any sites
   working with SEO because contents are not gated behind a login page. All published
   page still show but using a different url slug.
 *  Plugin Author [Rene Hermenau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renehermi/)
 * (@renehermi)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-index-question/#post-16533755)
 * > So I deleted the stage site, why can I still see my product page as public.
 * Is this a question?
   If you deleted the staging site and its still there I would
   expect caching issues. Make sure you purge your cache.When the site is deleted,
   the images are not available anymore. If they are still there please contact 
   us. It’s not possible if you deleted the staging site by using the Actions > 
   Delete button
 * 
   >  SEO because contents are not gated behind a login page. All published page
   still show but using a different url slug.As my colleague already mentioned in
   his reply: There will be no duplicate content issue for loading duplicate images
   from another path! Please read the link he sent to you.And the textual content
   is behind a login form. Additionally the site is no-index and will not be indexed
   by google if you should ever disable the authentication form.So, no! There is
   no duplicate content and SEO issue by creating a staging site with wp staging.
 *  Thread Starter [word6w](https://wordpress.org/support/users/word6w/)
 * (@word6w)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-index-question/#post-16534177)
 * Thanks the reply. For SEO, the example I gave is not gated behind a login page
   when I incognito mode attempted to see that page. Is there a reason why it happened?
   All caches were cleared as well. And I did use Delete function as noted.
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by [word6w](https://wordpress.org/support/users/word6w/).
 *  Plugin Author [Rene Hermenau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renehermi/)
 * (@renehermi)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-index-question/#post-16537673)
 * You can contact us here and send us the URl for checking: [https://wp-staging.com/support/](https://wp-staging.com/support/)

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