Search Efforts

How can i block search engines from indexing my "under construction" site?

developing a site at the moment... i dont want google or any search engines indexing me and bringing unwanted traffic so is their a code i insert the blocks them temporarily?

Public Comments

1. There are several ways to do it: 1 - you can put this tag in the metatag of your pages <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> 2 - use a robots.txt file If yo want the engines to index your site, remove the noindex metatag or robot.txt file http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8459
2. Better yet, pull the site down until you're ready to launch.