> On May 21, 2017, at 3:59 PM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote: > >> >> On May 21, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Michael Gentry <blackn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> That's the main change. I also added a link to the Staging CMS site since >> I had to dig that up (didn't know it offhand). > > Exposing staging links publicly and adding more weight to them by creating > links from the main site will be bad for SEO (a link to a second copy of the > site will confuse Google as to which is the primary page). Wish we had the > ability to set <link rel="canonical"../> for each page to help Google. So > maybe remove the <a> tag from that link, and simply keep the text?
On the other hand, it seems that the CMS already takes care of it by automatically placing a restrictive robots.txt on staging containing this: User-agent: * Disallow: / So my worries may be misplaced, but since search engines are complete blackboxes, you can never be 100% sure :) Andrus
