Legitimate test-sites / mirrors

[cgilbert]

All I want to do is to set up test-site for my mainsite - but I don't want this test site getting indexed/ranked anywhere (to avoid penalities if nothing else, right).

Is doing this simply a matter of using Robots.txt AND not linking to the test-site? Is this a full-proof way? Is there a better way?

[mister charlie]

why not pw protect it?

or make it accessible only through your admin interface.

[cgilbert]

Great idea, Charlie. Will do a robots.txt and password protect just to be extra safe. That definitely ought to do it.

Thanks!