thus people from the Political website politicalwire.com were able to grab some screenshots of the site which would have been the presidential site of Mitt Romney: Google got it as well Now the site was taken off the server relatively quick, but that damage was done already and you can see several sites around the web now reporting on it (including us ). But they made another mistake, one which is closer to the profession and interest of our readers: they forgot to block Google. If you do a search for some of the sentences used on the site you will find that the site is ranking in Google: The company building the site clearly forgot to block search engines from the server. Now these results will probably disappear over time, but there are lessons to be learned. What's to learn? I think that anyone who has ever been involved in building websites or search engine optimisation has run into this issue and has made one of these mistakes. Let's be honest: we have done it ourselves plenty of times. There are always a few things you need to think off when building a site which is supposed to go live at a certain point but which no-one can actually 'see' until then: 1. Make sure you built the site on a development server which is blocked from the outside so nobody gets to see it but the people who need to see it. 2. If you are using for