Posted 5 years ago #
Hi. I want to build up my new WP site before the search engines find and index anything. But I want to be able to view it along the way so I can see what others will eventually see. How do I do that?
Does this involve putting in a no index - no follow script somewhere? If so, where?
Thanks,
Eric
A page that is disallowed in the robots.txt file will still show up as a URL-only entry in the SERPs because they know that a page exists at that URL from the links that point to it.
If you want the page to not appear at all, then you need the <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag on the page instead.
Google tips:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8843
Posted 5 years ago #
The only way google will spider your site is if it finds a link to it from somewhere else.
Make sure you turn off the "pinging" for now - as that will be the first place you'll get links from.
If your sitename (domain) is brand new - and no one has every had it before - that should be enough. Just make sure you don't go telling anyone about the site, or asking for links from others yet.
Posted 5 years ago #
Or you can install xampp locally and complete design of your wp site on your own machine.... prior to uploading online. Since you will be able to create a viable database with xampp you will also be able to write test posts etc.
You can also block everyone but you from seeing the page using htaccess rule:
order deny,allow
allow from yourIPAddress
deny from all
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