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I’m creating a website and an app that will access the same database. While I will still be developing the site and all its modules, I will already put the same "in the air". Even for more efficient testing.
How can I make sure that my site does not appear in Google searches? That is, I want only me (or whoever knows the exact URL), can access it. But in such a way that searching in Google by the name of the site, it is not related in the searches.
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It has several techniques to solve this, each with its advantages and disadvantages. For its description just use the robots.txt which is a file that tells searchers that you don’t want that content to be indexed by them.
The presence of this file does not guarantee anything, but the best known searchers respect it. If you need guarantees, you will need to use a protection mechanism requiring at least one basic authentication before people access.
It is possible to use the meta put in the other answer but it gives work. You have to put it on every page, and if one day you need to change this on website, has to change in all files. It is possible to say in robots.txt which pages will be affected and centrally. It’s much better.
In some cases it may be better or the only way to do it, but it is rarely the case. It must be a secondary solution. Still, it is better to do this:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
It is also possible to control this on the HTTP server. But it is rare where this is most interesting. You can use this element in the protocol header:
X-Robots-Tag: noindex
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Searchers use web crawlers to find and index websites on the web. To prevent your site from being indexed, an alternative is to use the metatag:
<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />
In the header of your HTML, to inform that the page should not be made available to the public.
But it is worth noting that this metatag only informs searchers that you do not want to be "found". She does not block access to your site if it is already published on an external server. Anyone who has the direct link would still be able to access it.
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Wouldn’t it be better if you used an Apache local server? This ensures that only you can access the site and will therefore provide more security.
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