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I have a site that I want to continue testing before I make public, so I don't want Google to start crawling the site as there will be a large amount of garbage content during testing.

I currently have authentication set up using htpasswd, will this prevent site crawlers or robots from crawling my site?

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Yes, if the site requires authentication then robots will not be able to crawl it.

You can also specify a robots.txt file so that the entire site is disallowed

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