As I said at the beginning of this tutorial, you do NOT want to activate the All-in-One SEO Pack Plugin. Matter of fact you do not need to activate any of the 4 installed plugins. If you want to test a particular type of plugin then only activate the plugin you wish to test.

As you can see in the above image from my Site Manager, my test Site Rubix website is not indexed into Google. I also make sure I have at least 2 Pages and 2 Posts (with Featured Images) created, both with just a short paragraph of text and an image, just so there is something there for testing purposes.

TESTING THEMES

On my test website I have 10 different themes installed, see above image. You probably will not need to have as many as I do, because about 5 of my themes are ones my referrals have. I installed them just so I could help them with customization issues, which is what I am going to be talking about next.

UP NEXT = Customizing your themes
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TanjaRita Premium
I recently added a test site as per some members suggestions. It has been really helpful. I'm currently in the process of trying to rearrange my menu and I am doing it on my test site first just to make sure there won't be any glitches when i make the changes on my real site.

Thanks for the heads up on the plugins. I'm pretty sure I have them all activated on my test site. I will deactivate those today.
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@TanjaRita
You are welcome Tanya. There is no reason to have them activated because you sure do not want the website to be indexed into Google.

A test website is a great asset to use in making sure things look right and work right before sending something live.
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TanjaRita Premium
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I checked my test site and those plugins weren't activated. But they are in my first siterubix site that I transferred to my own domain. I was using that as a test site at first, but then I ended up creating a site entirely for testing. I am going to disable the plugins on that site now.
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@TanjaRita
Good. All strictly test sites should not have the All-in-One SEO activity.
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TanjaRita Premium
@boomergp08
I noticed I had checked all of the boxes so that search engines wouldn't follow, but now I have deleted it completely.
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@TanjaRita
Cool! You clicked nofollow. Good job.
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KatieMac Premium
This is a great bit of training I was fortunate that a good member Marion advised me to build a test site works great trying stuff out
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boomergp08 Premium
@KatieMac
Yes a test website is an excellent way to try things out without disturbing the existence of our live website.
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Funkydunc208 Premium
Clearly explained, Robert. Some great ideas there. Thank you.
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boomergp08 Premium
@Funkydunc208
You are welcome Duncan. I use a test website all the time. It's an efficient way to create your website.
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Harrysastar2 Premium
Nice one Robert, bookmarked
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boomergp08 Premium
@Harrysastar2
Thank you Brian. Happy you liked it.
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copperdell Premium
Wonderful and helpful

Sherrie
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boomergp08 Premium
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You are welcome Sherrie! Happy you like my training.
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