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Question about wordpress web site making it live - GOOGLE-SEO - Feb 6, 2016
I currently have a web site in HTML which is live.
I am wanting to change it over to worpress.
Issue is i dont want to remove the current HTML site offline.. as it may effect googles ranking .
So how can i transfer this all over, now if i use a sub folder google will start indexing this as it will be seen as duplicate content.
So is there a way to make or create a worpress site without making it live on google?.
Or is there a way i can preview it other than the browser?.
* - Shoe - Feb 6, 2016
Uh, I think you can disallow Google to index it in robots.txt
* - GOOGLE-SEO - Feb 6, 2016
(Feb 6, 2016 09:36 PM)Shoe Wrote: Uh, I think you can disallow Google to index it in robots.txtNo beacuse as even doing this google may still index the site , and i dont want to take the current HTML offline.
Can you edit / preview worpress without making it live?.
* - focuss - Feb 7, 2016
You can just start building your wordpress site on a sub domain and use the plugin Under Construction by Noah Kagan to make it unavailable (HTTP 503) for search engines :)
Of course you'll be able to login and modify it as you can access it once you login as an admin.
* - Big Man ♦ - Feb 12, 2016
I'm shocked that a SEO Expert doesn't know how to do this?
Just install Wordpress and on installation disallow web browsers from crawling your site?
* - система - Feb 13, 2016
(Feb 6, 2016 09:37 PM)GOOGLE-SEO Wrote: No beacuse as even doing this google may still index the site , and i dont want to take the current HTML offline.
Can you edit / preview worpress without making it live?.
Create a second installation on e.g. a development subdomain. Go to your WordPress settings > Privacy > Block search engines.
When done recreating your HTML website in WordPress, simply change the domain name and transfer the files to their correct directory.