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2/2/2012 4:17 PM
 
Erik Ernst wrote:
Related to this issue, does anyone know if there is any way to handle this?

I have a site with two portals, one portal is now in production while the other is still in test. I don't want the portal in test to be indexed, but I would really like the one in production to be included.

 Surely this is a bit of a non issue.  Google can only index it if it can find it.  So if you have no links to it then Google will not index it.

QED?

If you have links to it - say from your main site - then 'people' can find it and in that context Google is just a 'person'!


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- Richard
Agile Development Consultant, Practitioner, and Trainer
www.dynamisys.co.uk
 
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2/3/2012 12:20 AM
 
I know. I should add to the issue that I invited a number of my users to test it (that's why it's not just a localhost site). And they have already blogged about it!
 
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2/3/2012 3:02 AM
 
A secret shared;  isn't a secret!

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- Richard
Agile Development Consultant, Practitioner, and Trainer
www.dynamisys.co.uk
 
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2/3/2012 4:38 AM
 
I would use robots.txt for common folders, not to be indexed by google, like admin, desktopmodules, providers, images, portals/_deffault. For your content, you should submit a sitemap to Google for each of your websites, indicating the pages you'd like to include and the relevance of the content.

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Sebastian Leupold

dnnWerk - The DotNetNuke Experts   German Spoken DotNetNuke User Group

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2/3/2012 5:11 AM
 

I suggest you either make a positive about it...

Add a banner welcoming people to your experimental new site, use it as an opportunity for the site url's to get into the seach systems

or use Cathal's suggestion of requiring a login.  That will also help you control who your 'beta testers' are AND allow you to see which of them actually did anything on the site.


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- Richard
Agile Development Consultant, Practitioner, and Trainer
www.dynamisys.co.uk
 
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