There is no robots.txt file on production, though, so the link will be found there. I'll update it.
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote: > > > > On May 21, 2017, at 3:59 PM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> > wrote: > > > >> > >> On May 21, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Michael Gentry <blackn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> That's the main change. I also added a link to the Staging CMS site > since > >> I had to dig that up (didn't know it offhand). > > > > Exposing staging links publicly and adding more weight to them by > creating links from the main site will be bad for SEO (a link to a second > copy of the site will confuse Google as to which is the primary page). Wish > we had the ability to set <link rel="canonical"../> for each page to help > Google. So maybe remove the <a> tag from that link, and simply keep the > text? > > On the other hand, it seems that the CMS already takes care of it by > automatically placing a restrictive robots.txt on staging containing this: > > User-agent: * > Disallow: / > > So my worries may be misplaced, but since search engines are complete > blackboxes, you can never be 100% sure :) > > Andrus
