I didn't put it in my client's domain... it's under a domain I used just for development.
But search engines don't particularly like duplicate content and I would rather the bots not index the site. I'll have to check into using a robots.txt file to exclude an entire folder. I've used them for files, but not folders/directories. Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:59 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: How to stop bots indexing my dev sites > > 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:298907 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
