Hello, I have a question that has been bugging me for a long time... How can you successfully develop a website without getting hurt by google while its being created... e.g duplicate content penalties and so on. When creating alot of my big sites i create a template and "save as" and keep the content in it until i make the changes to make it its own page (the process is usually a day or so that its duplicate content) i have my own system... but is this something i should be worried about? Also are there any other risks i should be looking at? Thanks, -Tim
Using robots can put you out for 90 days I think or some time around that. If you want a quick launch with index, use htaccess and dump a htpassword file in. That way they can not access the page, but your not telling them to go away for an amount of time to when they feel like coming back and checking your robots.
A penalty for duplicated content is rather not too big deal as many mistakenly think. But as always, it's better not to have any of those page because they can be put in supplement results. I would rather upload a complete page. I don't like to upload one with half-way finished.
The best way to not get punished is to do all the job on computer or on other server or domain. But if you haven't got any other choose, you should try use robots.txt