Block Search Engines?

  • Resolved ironlion37

    (@ironlion37)


    7 years ago

    Hi,

    Thanks for this great plugin!

    I’m wondering if this a solution for blocking search engines? My site is under development and I currently have a browser level password on the website directory to keep it private during development (avoid SEO penalties, etc..). I’ve had situations in the past where robots.txt has not effectively blocked search engines so I just set a root level password on the site directory until I’m ready to go live.

    My situation now is I want to use an hourly backup system (Vaultpress) to help me with development and that requires that I disable the browser password – which means I would opening the site up to the search engines.

    This plugin could be a great solution, but I don’t want the search engines crawling anything.

    Any thoughts?

    Thank you!

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  • Plugin Author Lukas Juhas

    (@lukasneptun)

    Hi there,

    Thanks for your message, and sorry for the late reply, I have been away.

    Yes, when the website is set to maintenance mode, 503 HTTP code is returned which will stop crawlers, bots, search engines to track your website so it will not change information that it currently has. (https://httpstatuses.com/503)

    I’m not sure how well it will work with Vaultpress but there might be a possible workaround with filters available in the plugin but that would require some coding. But you might just want to try and see if it works or not. Maybe it does ??

    I hope that helps!

    Lukas

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