Posted by Ed Mullen on 01/17/07 21:06

patrick j wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2007 dorayme wrote:
>
>> You have had general advice about password protecting pages. What
>> I do is simply put stuff up in a folder on domains under my
>> control, the addresses highly unlikely to be quickly stumbled
>> upon. And anyone who does is highly unlikely to have any interest
>> or connection with you or client or likely to cause any problems.
>> It takes a while to get noticed in search engines.
>>
>> Not saying you should not password protect (it might even look
>> geeky and neat for the client!), just that is it worth it given
>> the very small risks involved?
>
> That is appealing in its simplicity but I fear that the search engines
> will have their bots doing their thing and then the pages will be found
> that way.

One thing you could do during development is simply change the name of
the page file every day. Like:

http://yourdomain.com/2007-01-17.html
http://yourdomain.com/2007-01-24.html

etc. This way you can just tell your friend that each day she can look
at it using the current day's date as the filename. Even if (unlikely)
search engine's find it and show it in results listings, it won't be
there when people click on it. ;-)

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