A current client of mine is thinking about leaving her job and going freelance. In the meantime she already has a website up and doesn’t think her boss will be able to see it as the site is not optimised yet.
But isn’t it still possible that google with pick up on some words, her name for instance? Is it best not to have a website up at all yet?
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If you don’t want it found then don’t put it up
If she needs it online then stick it in a Password Protected Directory - you can enable that in most hosting cPanels - that will keep Google out.
David
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DeltaDave wrote:
If you don’t want it found then don’t put it up
Absolutely.
Alternatively, have your client NOT use their name - not in the Whois
registry, not on the site, not in any url or social media connection.
If the site is already up, then Google already has all those connections
and it may be too late. Does the site show in searches for their name?
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The site doesn’t show up in searches at the moment, but I presume this may change on a day to day basis.
Think the site needs to come down for the moment!
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Just use your hosting provider’s control panel to put a password on the site folder. It’s quick and easy, and just as easy to remove when she’s ready to come out of hiding.
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I place a robots.txt file with the following code in the root directory of my development server to keep my development sites hidden, and it seems to work pretty well.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
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That’s only going to exclude “well-behaved” robots. The password thing is much more complete a solution if you are trying to keep something private for “staging” purposes.
Walter
On Aug 10, 2014, at 5:20 AM, RavenManiac wrote:
I place a robots.txt file with the following code in the root directory of my development server to keep my development sites hidden, and it seems to work pretty well.
User-agent: * Disallow: /
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