I have a clients site uploaded onto my server and would like it ‘hidden’ from google. Is there any way of doing this as I don’t want it listed under the proofing url.
I don’t suspect it is possible but would like to reply to my client possitively.
Hidden…well not exactly. But you could make Google very uninterested in your site by simple not using any html text. Google hates (ignores) pages that do not have any links to outside pages or do not have any html text areas.
The site will eventually go live so it will have lots of html and links etc. It just that I have proofed a clients site this way before and it shows up in google under my url even once it goes live.
Hidden…well not exactly. But you could make Google very uninterested in your site by simple not using any html text. Google hates (ignores) pages that do not have any links to outside pages or do not have any html text areas.
The site will eventually go live so it will have lots of html and
links etc. It just that I have proofed a clients site this way before
and it shows up in google under my url even once it goes live.
As long as you don’t have any links from your pages to the site being approved, once it has been moved Google will eventually not point at your url because there is nothing relevant on your site.
The site will eventually go live so it will have lots of html and
links etc. It just that I have proofed a clients site this way before
and it shows up in google under my url even once it goes live.
As long as you don’t have any links from your pages to the site being approved, once it has been moved Google will eventually not point at your url because there is nothing relevant on your site.
Google ‘robots.txt’ for one way to manage this. Make a simple text file, name it robots.txt and put it in the root folder on the server. You can add simple commands in there which will cause all compliant crawlers (of which Google is one) to ignore anything you like.
Wouldn’t a simple META tag into the document header suffice?
Name: robots
Value: "noindex, nofollow"
You’d have to toss that in on every page though.
If you opt to create a robots.txt file. You can place it in the root folder of your published pages (where your index.html is.) Inside that TXT document you’d put in:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
This will block all search robots from the site and the entire server. Remember also that robots.txt is a public file if you choose this method so someone (who knows why) would be able to look at it and see what you’ve blocked.
Wouldn’t a simple META tag into the document header suffice?
Name: robots
Value: “noindex, nofollow”
You’d have to toss that in on every page though.
If you opt to create a robots.txt file. You can place it in the root folder of your published pages (where your index.html is.) Inside that TXT document you’d put in:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
This will block all search robots from the site and the entire server. Remember also that robots.txt is a public file if you choose this method so someone (who knows why) would be able to look at it and see what you’ve blocked.