Why does Google Image Search still display my images?

This took the index some more time, but after around six weeks, the blocked images are no longer displayed as search results. I am not sure if this will help for future uploads for photos of the same people with different filenames, but I had added strings with placeholders like these: User-Agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/*adam*smith*.jpg … Read more

How do I host WordPress on a hidden domain through a reverse proxy?

To ensure your content isn’t crawled from the hidden admin DOMAIN you could include something like this in your .htaccess file. RewriteEngine On #Force traffic to production URL RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !xxxx.com$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http://www.xxxx.com/guides/%{REQEUST_URI} [R=301,L] There is more than one way to handle this first redirect so your code may work too (didn’t test … Read more

Worried I have a funky .htaccess for WP site in light of strange search engine behavior

WordPress responds to requests to a robots.txt with dynamic content if such a file does not exist. That’s one way how the settings from wp-admin/options-privacy.php are used. I recommend to create a static robots.txt, just to make sure no plugin is getting in your way. Sample robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /wp-admin Disallow: /wp-includes … Read more