Google tag manager on blocked beta site - will it phone home to Google and cause site to get indexed?
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We want to develop a beta site, in a directory with the robots.txt blocking bots. We want to include the Google Tag Manager tags and event layer tracking code on this beta site.
My question is that by including the Google Tag Manager code, that phones home to Google, will it cause Google to index this beta site when we don't want it indexed?
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We've never had an issue. We test tag manager in our dev sites, they don't get indexed, but the tags will still fire.
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Oh good. I didn't want to run into the new beta site getting indexed.
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Adding to this, and sorry if there is an obvious answer - I just want to make sure, I should create a new tag for beta site that is blocked, yes?