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    • paulwatley
      paulwatley last edited by

      We noticed that Google is indexing our pre-production site ibweb.prod.interstatebatteries.com in addition to indexing our main site interstatebatteries.com. Can you all help shed some light on the proper way to no-index our pre-prod site without impacting our live site?

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      • PaulM01
        PaulM01 last edited by

        Placing a robots.txt in the root of the subdomain will do it:

        User-agent: *
        Disallow: /

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