Launching Website
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We are developing a new website and thinking google would not find it because of the directory we put it in (no homepage yet) and because there are no links to it. For example, we are building it in this directory example.com/wordpress/ but somehow google found it and indexed pages not ready to be indexed.
What should we do to stop this until we are ready to launch? Should we just use a robots.txt file with this in it?
User-agent: *
Disallow: /Will this create repercussions when we officially launch?
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Thank you
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Thanks!
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You are correct with your approach.
And as Paddy states, once you launch, remove the disallow and the crawlers will find you.
I would also suggest that once you launch that you submit a sitemap to all of the major search engines to be found even quicker and to help ensure that all of your site pages are crawled.
Mike
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yes, use the robots file to deindex, once your ready to launch remove the disallow, and the next time google crawls your site you should get indexed.
you must have been linked from somewhere for google to find you, so it means google will find you quicker once you ready to launch ( you already have a backlink)
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