Tip: Prevent Indexing The Duplicate Content on Test Site or Blog

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At times, you create a new site or blog and wish to test the themes and layouts and wish to play around and tweak the settings a little. You choose different themes and load them up into the Themes folder through FTP and fire them up in your Admin section. All is well, but rather than going the much used path, which is posting gibberish or lorem ipsum text, you choose to copy and paste any of your valuable post which is widely popular in one of your blog or site. This approach is good, if you do not mind the duplicate content warning and missing out the relevant credibility.

But, if you wish to keep your ranking in search results and your authenticity of not posting the duplicate content, then you need to be aware of the method which will enable you to block the search engine spiders as long as you wish to test your site and do not want it to be indexed until and unless you press the Official Release button.

How to do it?

Open your robots.txt file.
Add

User-agent: *
Disallow: /test/

It’s Done.

Do mind that ‘test’ in /test/ is actually the name of the directory which you wish to prevent from indexing.

And, do not forget to remove this code snippet when you are done with testing and going Live.

Do suggest any ideas which you are aware of or implement in order to achieve the same feature. We would like to hear from You.

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