locatepeople — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:23:06 +0000

the only thing i can suggest is that you link to a sepeate page in your host account and have all the nessecery links there, tha way it is less likely to be picked up and you'd only have to "censor" one page every week.

demonhale — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:51:44 +0000

Awesome beat me to it, Oh well...

JeevesBond — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:54:54 +0000

Ohhhh, sweet. Problem solved then, I'll remember that. Nice one Mr Awsome

fifeclub — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:23:24 +0000

CptAwesome wrote: Just use http://tinyurl.com/

http://tinyurl.com/9rgyv (just a link to this very thread)

I've seen tiny url links before but thought they were just crappy cloaking urls. That is AWESOME! That would totally eliminate that risk I was worried about. Problem solved. Thanks!

P.S. So how does tinyurl.com make their money? I don't get it?

P.P.S. dvduval - positng the url without a link will prevent Google from indexing that linked site but Google will still pickup the text which can be found in search results.

CptAwesome — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:26:51 +0000

Just use http://tinyurl.com/

JeevesBond — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:59:57 +0000

The only other way - I can think of - around this is to create a little client area on your site for testing and critique then move it to the sites proper domain when you're ready to make it live. Only problem with this is that it promotes link rot, but you can't have everything.

Do that or let your client know your intentions when you start the project - as Megan suggested. I'd imagine most clients would be impressed that you're putting your own work under professional scrutiny!

robfenn — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:08:30 +0000

He said the engines still find the threads though...

I think it is a very good point you have made fifeclub, although if it was something i was to undertake too i would deem it as over reactive as i think the chances are so small with my clients. If i had a very important client, and i really thought i needed help, i'd be willing to pay £10 to buy any old domain name and re-direct it to the actual website.

-Rob

dvduval — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:46:03 +0000

You can always just post the URL but not let it be a hyperlink.
Ex. -www.phplinkdirectory.com

Renegade — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:17:58 +0000

Haha, Busy beat me to it.

I was going to suggest two things, but are essentially the same thing.

1, Use a redirect since Search Engines don't really like them

2, Put up a permanent domain such as example.help.co.nz and have a single HTML with a frame which links to the actual site you'd like help on. I agree this maybe a little more troublesome for our readers and possibly for you though...

I guess any option is fine, just ask yourself, "is it worth it"?

Busy — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:10:33 +0000

If you are hosting the said site, you could use a redirect (header: gosomeotherpage or if no server side use html meta refresh to new page with meta robots no follow) as search engines dislike redirects.
Wouldn't cut them all out but would cut at least half