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✅ Pre-Launch SEO Checklist Item

• Search Engine Visibility Enabled
  

  Go to Settings → Reading in the WordPress dashboard.
  

  Ensure that “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” is unchecked.
  

⚠️ Search Engine Indexing

Critical SEO Step:

Before launching any site, make sure WordPress is set to allow search engine indexing.

Navigate to:

Dashboard → Settings → Reading

Uncheck:

“Discourage search engines from indexing this site”

If left checked, search engines like Google will not crawl or rank the site, even if it’s live and fully optimized.