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  1. Publishing Documentation
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Public publishing

Publish your docs publicly to the web so that everyone can access them.

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If you created your docs for a public audience, you can publish it on the web. Spaces that you publish on the web can be indexed by search engines and will be available to anyone. If you don’t want your content to be indexed by search engines, you can disable that too — read more about that .

However you publish your content, you’ll still retain control over who can edit your content. And only your primary content branch will be published, so any will remain private until merged.

Publish as public

To publish your docs publicly on the web head to the docs site you want to publish, click Publish button, and choose the Public option.

Publish without search engine indexing

By default, your site will be indexed by search engines. You can alternatively choose to disable this — meaning the docs are still available to everyone on the web, but they won’t be indexed by search engines such as Google.

They will still be accessible to anyone with a the link to your documentation. Docs sites that aren’t indexed can be particularly helpful if you want to publish a beta version of your docs, or do large-scale user testing without impacting your SEO with potentially duplicate content.

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