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- Guv
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After many months of preparing my site (with many thanks to the mods for all their help) it is nearly ready to go live .... I will be moving it to the required URL using JoomlaPack ... it will be replacing the outdated site that is currently on that domain.
My question is .... will seach engines be able to index the site if it is sitting there "offline" until I am allowed to go fully public with it?
I would like search engines to begin indexing (when I submit the sitemap etc ..) so it has a head start when it goes public?
I have searched the net looking for this answer .. with no luck!
Does anyone here know?
Cheers
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- prim
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- Well, you can't do that since Google and Bing can't access your content.
- Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.
A template is only as good as the content that goes into it
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- Guv
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Thanks for the reply Prim. I just couldn't find a definitive answer anywhere through my searching on the net.
I wasn't sure ... because when testing it .. I found that if I had the site set to "offline", and I typed in a known url for a particular menu item, even though it displays the offline page ... if I view the page source it actually displays the source of the "known url" not the offline page .. so I wasn't sure if the search engines would stil index it.
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- prim
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Well, they will only get to the index.php page since you haven't given Google or Bing any tasty cookies
- Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.
A template is only as good as the content that goes into it - DanG
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- Robert D. Wagers
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Web-crawlers look for links in-a-chain and follow links as far as they can go. If your site is "off-line" then the links wouldn't be active and thus, would not give them anything to follow.
Wage - "Everyone has to get knocked-down every once-in-a-while, otherwise you'll never learn how to get-back-up!
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A quote attributed to my Grandpa Wagers
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- Robert D. Wagers
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Here's a very good place-to-start that all web-designers should read. It gives you "all-sorts" of valuable information.
http://www.googleguide.com/
Wage - "Everyone has to get knocked-down every once-in-a-while, otherwise you'll never learn how to get-back-up!
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A quote attributed to my Grandpa Wagers
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- Robert D. Wagers
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Sorry, I meant to paste this link:
http://www.googleguide.com/category/website-development/
This links is for developers.
Wage - "Everyone has to get knocked-down every once-in-a-while, otherwise you'll never learn how to get-back-up!
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A quote attributed to my Grandpa Wagers
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