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Test site showing up in google

  • 21-10-2008 1:27pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070
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    And the client is not happy and its still WIP.
    So anyway i can stop this?

    can a php password type script prohibit access to anypage of a site?

    thanks


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 aidan_walsh
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    You could password protect it with htaccess, or block it being spidered in your robots.txt.

    Since Google already have it I'm not sure how easy they will let it go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 marcphisto
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    If it's urgent look here http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=61062&hl=en

    You'll need to set a robots.txt file at the root of the test site folder disallowing all robots access and you can set the meta robots tag to noindex, nofollow on each page of the site also.

    Experience has taught me that password protecting the site using .htaccess or other methods doesn't stop google from getting in.

    hope that helps.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 aidan_walsh
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    Thats cool, I wasn't aware Google had that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 The Corinthian
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    Thats cool, I wasn't aware Google had that.
    I think you'll find that robots.txt pre-dates Google:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 aidan_walsh
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    I think you'll find that robots.txt pre-dates Google:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt
    Robots yes, the Emergency Removal form, no :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 mambo
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    marcphisto wrote: »
    Experience has taught me that password protecting the site using .htaccess or other methods doesn't stop google from getting in.

    You can't have been doing it right then! ;-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 The Corinthian
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    Robots yes, the Emergency Removal form, no :)
    I stand corrected :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 colm_c
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    marcphisto wrote: »
    Experience has taught me that password protecting the site using .htaccess or other methods doesn't stop google from getting in.

    There shouldn't be any problems with this method if done correctly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,594 forbairt
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    normally simplest solution is to bang a .htaccess / .htpassd onto the system

    (assuming apache / similar of course)

    robots.txt should mean you don't get indexed but ... meh! ... why chance it.

    most panels let you password protect a directory / subdirectory and so on ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,957 corkie
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    Placebo wrote: »
    And the client is not happy and its still WIP.
    So anyway i can stop this?

    can a php password type script prohibit access to anypage of a site?

    thanks

    Are you using wordpress or another php application on the site. Because the same happened to my own test site.

    Wordpress has a privacy feature that you can enable so that your site doesn't get indexed by the search engine. As I hadn't submitted my site, to google etc. I was wondering how I got a high ranking for it. It wasn't till I used this feature. That my site fell of the front page of google.

    Regards,
    John


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,045 Bluefrog
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    forbairt wrote: »
    robots.txt should mean you don't get indexed but ... meh! ... why chance it.
    ...

    Are you seriously suggesting that Google doesn't respect robots.txt??? Can you imagine the backlash if this were actually the case?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 colm_c
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    Bluefrog wrote: »
    Are you seriously suggesting that Google doesn't respect robots.txt??? Can you imagine the backlash if this were actually the case?

    Google do respect robots.txt but there are some crawlers who don't and feed some of the less popular search engines, still resulting in your pages being indexed and available when they shouldn't be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,045 Bluefrog
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    True but Google won't. If you don't want your content available to the public then password protecting the site as described above is appropriate.

    I just didn't want readers left with the impression that Google sometimes ignores the robots file.


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