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How to show site to client



User: Susan S. 4 years ago
I'm doing a redoing a website for a client/friend. It's going to use their domain name but we will put it on a new server. The old website is still up and I don't have access to it.

What I've done in the past is make a folder on my server where my website is called "test" and I upload to that.

However, I've had problems with that. I don't really understand how everweb works behind the scene but twice now I've done that and twice now it's added something to the client website that references my business site and it prevents Google from picking the site up in search and Google my business.

You can see my original post about it here:
https://billing.ragesw.com/forum.php?act=thread&tid=6440

To fix the Google problems I had to redo from scratch both websites (couldn't copy and paste) and then once I uploaded them Google was able to index them. So again, I don't know how some reference to my Virtual Assistant website got added to two client sites when I uploaded them to my "test" folder but it did happen.

So how can I show the client the website so she can make some suggestions to it without somehow screwing it up? What is the best way to show my client the website before it is ready to go "live."

Thank you,

Susan
User: Paul-RAGESW 4 years ago
Hi Susan,

EverWeb doesn't do any thing fancy in the background besides upload your site to the directory you tell it to.

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However, I've had problems with that. I don't really understand how everweb works behind the scene but twice now I've done that and twice now it's added something to the client website that references my business site and it prevents Google from picking the site up in search and Google my business.


I can't think of anything EverWeb would add to a website to prevent it from being indexed by Google.

If you can clarify what you mean by "it added something to the client website" I can understand better and provide some solution. What exactly was added to the client's website?

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So how can I show the client the website so she can make some suggestions to it without somehow screwing it up? What is the best way to show my client the website before it is ready to go "live."


If you publish to a test directory, there should be no problem.

From the File menu just select 'Edit Publishing Settings' and enter something in the sub directory field such as

test

as you have and publish

That will not do anything to existing websites added elsewhere.

Please let me know how it goes.

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Paul
EverWeb Developer
User: Susan S. 4 years ago
Hi Paul,

Remember we had this thread going: https://billing.ragesw.com/forum.php?act=thread&tid=6440 I was working with Google and they looked at the code for that website in question. And they found a reference to MY website in it. I didn't know where it was and don't even know how to look thru the code. Fortunately it's was a small site and it didn't take me long to redo it from scratch. The minute I did that I went to Google my Business for the guy and bingo, Google listed it where it wouldn't until I redid it.

I don't understant how that happened. The only reference in that web site to my Virtual Assistant site was the fact that we tested it in a test folder I made on my VA site.

Very weird. This site I'm doing now is much larger and I can't afford to have to rebuild it.

Susan
User: Paul-RAGESW 4 years ago
Hi Susan,

I reviewed that thread but it doesn't look like you ever contacted us with FTP details. I don't see any tickets related to that request in our system. Am I mistaken?

It seems we were just left with questions. I don't know what caused that issue before so I can't say.

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Very weird. This site I'm doing now is much larger and I can't afford to have to rebuild it.


I would say with 100% confidence you will not have to rebuild anything. That would not be the cause.

The absolute worst case scenario would be having to remove all your published file from the server with Godaddy and then republishing with EverWeb.

But having to rebuild an EverWeb website because of the issue you are referring to would definitely not be a requirement. I am 100% sure about that.

Last edit 4 years ago

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Paul
EverWeb Developer


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