sebb>So surely that means it won't return matches to the staging site based on content?
Which documentation do you read? ' As for me, Google WILL display those results. - While Google won't crawl or index the content blocked by robots.txt, we might still find and index a disallowed URL if it is linked from other places on the web. As a result, the URL address and, potentially, *other publicly available information such as anchor text in links to the page can still appear in Google search results*. To properly prevent your URL from appearing in Google Search results, you should password-protect the files on your server <https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93708> or use the noindex meta tag or response header <https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710> (or remove the page entirely). They recommend password-protect the page though. So the only viable options so far are: 1) drop the page 2) password-protect it Vladimir
