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Hi Eli,

Thanks for the fast response.

Creating a public facing 'staging' instance does create a certain degree of risk as it can potentially be discovered and indexed.

Are other clients currently using this method? If so what best practices do you recommend we follow if we were to go this route to ensure that our 'Staging' site is ONLY crawled by Rogerbot and not by any other bot or service.

Hi Moz,

We would like to setup Moz to run on our Staging Server. This would be extremely valuable as it alerts us to new SEO issues/risks in a controlled and secure environment that is not exposed to production.

Our internal team has recommended potentially setting up a reverse proxy server that will validate either via Moz's/Rogerbot's http header or IP and allow Moz access to our Staging environment to crawl.

Is this something that we can setup with Moz? Are there other ideas to enable Moz to crawl our Staging server?

Hi Eli,

Thanks for the fast response.

Creating a public facing 'staging' instance does create a certain degree of risk as it can potentially be discovered and indexed.

Are other clients currently using this method? If so what best practices do you recommend we follow if we were to go this route to ensure that our 'Staging' site is ONLY crawled by Rogerbot and not by any other bot or service.