I m wanting to build a uniqe site, but want to take time to work on it. I am worried search engines will pick up the pages while being developed. Is it a good idea to disable the site from being crawled whilst in development or allow it to be crawled to increase the pages/websites’ age?
I’m thinking search engines might crawl undeveloped pages, find duplicate content as I am using a template, possible competitors may see my idea etc.
If it is crawled and indexed there is a chance of it appearing in search results. That may lead to people visiting an unfinished page, which does not look good for your site. I would prevent any crawling or indexing of WIP.