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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 Pearset 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, Pearset 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. 
GET /noindex HTTP/2
Host: d.to
User-Agent: curl/8.6.0

HTTP/2 302
location: https://pearset/help/article/how-noindex-works
X-Robots-Tag: noindex
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If you’re using Pearset with a default Pearset-branded domain (e.g. pearset.sh, git.new), the noindex response header is not applied by default.
If you would like your short links to be indexed anyway, you can easily enable indexing by following these steps:
  1. Go to your Pearset dashboard.
  2. Click on the ⋮ button of the link that you want to enable indexing for, which will open the dropdown menu.
  3. In the dropdown menu, click on the Edit button, which will open the Pearset link builder.
  4. Click on the ... button, which will open the dropdown menu.
  5. In the dropdown menu, click on the Add Search Engine Indexing button to enable indexing.
Enable search engine indexing for a Pearset short link
And that’s it! Your link will now be served without the noindex response header: 
GET /doindex HTTP/2
Host: d.to
User-Agent: curl/8.6.0

HTTP/2 302
location: https://pearset/help/article/how-noindex-works
X-Powered-By: Pearset
This feature is only available on Pro plans and above.