Quote Originally Posted by Bec View Post
...NEVER put on your site that it's under construction! You don't promote it til it's ready, so it's likely no one will accidently stop by ... BUT THE SEARCH ENGINEs WILL! And any text on the page can end up in the SE description for your site.
I am now
1. temporarily forwarding my new domains using .htaccess to a paysite and
2. adding a robots.txt file suppressing all search engines
until the domains are ready to be publicly launched. This solves the problem of unwanted visitors and search engine entries.