I like to let me clients look in on the site during development and test features along the way. (They get training and I get testing that way. They are also giving tacit approval to the design and development by being in on the process.)
Restricting the IP wouldn't be a good solution since they may want to view the site at the office, or at home, friends, etc. Seems like a login to the development site would be the easiest way to go. Thoughts? Thanks, Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:16 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: OT: How to stop bots indexing my dev sites > > We restrict the dev site/server by IP address, so only local > connections are permitted by the webserver. VPN access is used to > access a dev server off-site. > > On Feb 14, 2008 12:56 AM, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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:298950 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
