[thelist] old working site found by google

[Chris Beaumont]

Set a robots.txt file at the root level telling search engines to 
ignore the entire site..(or the directories that you dont want)  Then 
the next time the googlebot visits, the google listing will suddenly 
vanish..

-Chris


On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 01:26 PM, Gregory Wostrel wrote:

> I have just recently finished a site.  http://www.weekapauginn.com  
> The client was doing a Google check on the new site. It came up well 
> on a search for the Inn's name: weekapaug inn. However, the site as it 
> existed in the staging area on my server also comes up! It was parked 
> there for a while and it must have become indexed by Google. At least 
> it comes up number 6 and not higher than results for the real site. 
> But undesirable, still. The pages are no longer there but i did put a 
> redirect page there, just in case. ( 
> http://www.gwcreative.com/working/weekapaug/index.html ) Will the 
> redirect just perpetuate the problem? Is there something I can do to 
> get the erroneous listing off of Google?
>
> Thanks,
> Gregory Wostrel
>