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# Show or hide your portal in search engines
> One switch decides whether Google and other search engines can list your public feedback portal. Turn it on so your roadmap and ideas show up in search results, or off to keep the portal out of search entirely.
Your public portal (your feedback board, roadmap, and changelog) can either show up in search engines like Google or stay out of them. A single **Allow search engine indexing** switch controls this for the whole workspace. Turn it on when you want people to find your roadmap and feature requests through search, and turn it off when the portal should only be reached by people you send there directly.
Indexing is **on by default**, so a new workspace's portal is discoverable in search as soon as it has content.
This setting lives on the Domain page and only workspace **owners** and **admins** can change it. The switch appears once your portal address is secured with SSL. That happens automatically for your free `.sleekplan.app` address, and shortly after DNS verification for a [custom domain](/help/portal-widget/custom-domain).
## Turn indexing on or off
Go to [**Settings → Public Portal & Widget → Domain**](https://app.sleekplan.com/settings/domain). The **Allow search engine indexing** switch sits at the top, in the **Your portal** section.
Turn the switch **on** to let search engines index your portal, or **off** to keep it out of search results. The change saves on its own the moment you flip it, so there is no separate Save button, and a short **Saved** confirmation appears.
## What the setting changes
The switch changes how your portal presents itself to search engine crawlers across every public surface (feedback, roadmap, and changelog):
* **On**: pages tell crawlers `index, follow`, your portal allows crawling, and each feedback post and changelog entry is listed in your portal's `sitemap.xml` so search engines can find them.
* **Off**: every public page tells crawlers `noindex, nofollow`, your portal disallows crawling in its `robots.txt`, and your sitemap drops to essentially empty.
You do not need to touch any files yourself. Sleekplan generates the robots rules, the page tags, and the sitemap for you based on this one switch.
Turning indexing off is not instant on Google's side. Search engines re-crawl on their own schedule, so a portal that was already indexed can take days or weeks to disappear from results after you turn the switch off. The `noindex` signal simply tells them to drop it the next time they visit.
## Why your portal might not appear in search anyway
Indexing being on is necessary, but a few other settings can independently keep a page out of search, no matter what this switch says:
* **A private or protected board.** If your board is set to private, or gated behind a password, allowed email domains, or single sign-on in [Access & Privacy](/help/portal-widget/access-privacy), its content is never indexed. Search engines only list pages anyone can open, so a gated board stays out of search on its own.
* **Filtered views.** A board opened with filters in the URL (a specific type, tag, or search term) is left out of search on purpose, so search engines index your main board rather than dozens of near-duplicate filtered versions. The individual posts are still reachable and indexable through the unfiltered board.
* **Hidden or segment-restricted content.** Posts under a hidden feedback type, or one limited to a specific user segment, are not added to the sitemap.
If you want your portal in search and it is not showing up, first confirm this switch is on, then check that your board is public in Access & Privacy.
## Related
Host your portal on your own domain, which also sets the address search engines index.
Control who can reach your board. Private and protected boards are never indexed.