: Index manager in cpanel. Do contents still get indexed with "No Indexing"? Simple question. A folder, lets say for example abc.com/images/ Is being displayed on google as "index of", which I

@Heady270

The "No Indexing" that you are seeing in cpanel controls whether or not the web server creates a document for the directory that lists all the files. Selecting "no indexing" will only prevent the directory contents from being listed but will not effect whether the contents of the directory can be crawled by search engines.

If you don't use the "no indexing" option:


/images/ -- crawlable, list all files in the directory
/images/test.jpg -- crawlable, may be included in Google's index


If you do use the "no indexing" option:


/images/ -- not crawlable, not authorized error, contents not listed
/images/test.jpg -- crawlable, may be included in Google's index


If you wish to redirect to another page rather than show an error for the directory, that is also fine. You would need redirect index.html to another url. You could do so by putting a redirect directive into .htaccess:

redirect permanent /index.html example.com/

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