# When your site is finished and live, what basics do YOU do to ensure it runs smoothly?

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**Created:** [February 21, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/when-your-site-is-finished-and-live-what-basics-do-you-do-to-ensure-it-runs-smoothly/18756 "2018-02-21T14:32:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/when-your-site-is-finished-and-live-what-basics-do-you-do-to-ensure-it-runs-smoothly/18756/9 "2018-02-23T12:04:24Z")

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In addition to what @manofdogz said, checking the box on a page by page basis, you can use a robots.txt file on your site.  
There are many posts about robots.txt files, the significant advantages are you can keep all the noindex stuff in one place, and Google has a useful testing tool to make sure it works.

> [@RapidWeaver SEO Articles](http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rapidweaver-seo-articles/15848/11):
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> robots.txt is a separate file in your root directory. We talked about this earlier in the year; you can create one with RW or a text editor: don’t forget to test this! - A messed up robots.txt file can stop search engines from indexing all or part of your site.

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