De-index a development site

zee007

Senior Member

Jun 25, 2012

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• Feb 22, 2013

• #1

Whats the fastest way to de-index a development site that is showing up in the SERPS? My stupid programmers forgot to password protect the page and now its showing up in the SERPS!

 

jascoken

Senior Member

Nov 1, 2010

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• Feb 22, 2013

• #2

Just use the noindex meta tag or do a global block via .htaccess. When the page gets re-crawled it will disappear.

 

adeptbob

Regular Member

Oct 8, 2012

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• Feb 22, 2013

• #3

With Google setup a google webmaster account quickly and read this guide:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1663416

 

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BacklinksProject.com

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Jan 2, 2012

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• Feb 23, 2013

• #4

jascoken said:

Just use the noindex meta tag or do a global block via .htaccess. When the page gets re-crawled it will disappear.

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that's it! tell your programmer not to be stupid anymore

cheers!