Media Temple – Site Preview URL

[jamygolden]

For each website, Media Temple has a site preview url. It looks something like this: http://url.s83596.gridserver.com/

My site is up and running but I’d like google to not crawl that site since I don’t want any canonical problems or anything. Is there any Media Temple user here who has found a solution to this problem?

[jamygolden]

Thanks Mark! I guess they do some kind of minor blocking which is why Google only indexes it if you make it public.

I did actually ask them and they gave a similar robots.txt answer. I’m not really sure how to specifically block http://url.s83596.gridserver.com/ with the robots.txt – as far as I know you can block files and folders, not urls.

But it seems it won’t be a problem since no one else has really complained about this before.

Thanks again

[mediatemple]

You can also request a URL removal via Google Webmaster:

http://www.raymondfong.net/search-engines/getting-delisted-from-google-counter-seo/

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