If you're familiar with SEO best practices, you might have heard of the noindex meta tag that tells search engines not to index a page.
This is particularly important if you're using Dub with a custom domain – specifically a subdomain – for your short links, since having them indexed could potentially have a negative impact on your SEO.
To prevent this, Dub automatically serves short links with a noindex response header when you're using a custom domain. This tells search engines not to index your short links, keeping them out of search results.
If you're using Dub with a default Dub-branded
domain (e.g. dub.sh, git.new), the
noindex response header is not applied by default.
How to index your short links on Google#
If you would like your short links to be indexed anyway, you can easily enable indexing by following these steps:
- Go to your Dub dashboard.
- Click on the
⋮button of the link that you want to enable indexing for, which will open the dropdown menu. - In the dropdown menu, click on the Edit button, which will open the Dub link builder.
- Click on the
...button, which will open the dropdown menu. - In the dropdown menu, click on the Add Search Engine Indexing button to enable indexing.
And that's it! Your link will now be served without the noindex response header:
This feature is only available on Pro plans and above.