Do you put it up in the client's webspace, under their domain? I just put all clients dev work under a single folder in my domain, and use the robots.txt file to exclude that folder.
Will -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 February 2008 15:57 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: How to stop bots indexing my dev sites Hi, all. I usually put up a client's site while it is development so they can view progress, make comments, etc. I recently completed a client's site and began to perform search engine optimization on it. Once I started reviewing rankings, I found that my development site was ranking higher for the content than my client's main site! Not good! I thought about using the meta tag for robots not to follow or index the site, but realized I'd have to take that out of the file every time I uploaded the site to my client's domain. I guess I could check the cgi.server_name and skip the meta tag with conditional cf code if it's in the development domain. Other ideas? Thanks, Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298895 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
