I have a beta site which is mainly used to experiment. It is blocked by robots.txt. Within GWT, shouldnt the the index status bar be zero?
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Federico Sasso: a site: search would find anything? is the site reachable through another host name (e.g. non-www) non-blocked?
Athanasios Giannias: hi +Federico Sasso ;sorry for the delay. Yes my site is reachable with the site:search. ;But when using the fetch as google within GWT, ;" Blocked robots.txt Tester " appears. ; My beta site is: ; ;http://beta(dot)softmakers(dot)gr/
Thank you ;
Federico Sasso: +Athanasios Giannias ;not all the pages are indexed, they mostly look deep link. My guess is somehow for a while the beta site was not robots.txt blocked and got fully indexed or so, not that it's robots.txt blocked Google is slowly de-indexing its pages.
Athanasios Giannias: +Federico Sasso ; so i should wait until all the pages are de-indexed? ; I guess that when this happens the index status bar within GWT be zero?
Federico Sasso: Yes, that's what I think. You could of course use the URL removal tool, but it only works one URL at the time.
Athanasios Giannias: I will wait for a while - probably will take weeks - till its totally dropped from search. ; Thank you +Federico Sasso ;
Daniel Mullins: Hi +Athanasios Giannias I would suggest adding the meta=noindex tag to all the pages in ur beta site.
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