Will htaccess password protection pealize my site. (need help now please)

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by sakib000, Jun 23, 2007.

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    I am very thankful to this community who help me step by step.

    My question is - My site is under development but still in google index and has some inbound links which send me a little traffic. But I don,t want to show my under development site to my visitors so i put htaccess password protection. Will it penalize my site by SE

    Thanks again
     
    sakib000, Jun 23, 2007 IP
  2. trichnosis

    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    if you dont want search engines to index your pages now, block your pages with robots.txt file. it's easier :)

    and using password protected pages will not be a reason for the punishment
     
    trichnosis, Jun 23, 2007 IP
  3. sakib000

    sakib000 Active Member

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    robots.txt can prevent bots only i aslo wanted to stop visitors from browsing my under contruction site
     
    sakib000, Jun 23, 2007 IP
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    iRAY Peon

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    There is no easy way how to block visitors only. It can be done by some scripting only.

    1) by detecting bot (you will need comprehensive list)
    2) by testing with cookies (bots are not able to use them)
     
    iRAY, Jun 24, 2007 IP