: Temporarily redirect pages to a section of a landing page? I have created a single page landing page while I redesign my website that has sections for popular pages. So the landing page has

@Pierce454

It seems from your question that you are keeping your site content but making a new structure for it. This is fine, and good. But it is not something that should be attempted with tricks.

Rather I would do a most simple 2 step process:

1) Get a robots.txt and "/" disallow your full site (see also the other steps lower) and then in Google Search Console TELL GOOGLE TO REMOVE YOUR FULL SITE from view.
2) When ready to re-index your site do so again in Search Console.

GOOGLE STATES:


The Remove URLs tool is only a temporary
removal. To remove content or a URL from Google search permanently you
must take one or more of the following additional actions:

Remove or update the actual content from your site (images, pages,
directories) and make sure that your web server returns either a 404
(Not Found) or 410 (Gone) HTTP status code. Non-HTML files (like PDFs)
should be completely removed from your server. (Learn more about HTTP
status codes) Block access to the content, for example by requiring a
password. Indicate that the page should not to be indexed using the
noindex meta tag. This is less secure than the other methods. (Via)

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