Not really a WP question, but I do this with dev sites. I don’t think I can give you an absolute answer as to search engines’ behavior, but speaking from experience, adding authentication like htpasswd retroactively would cause an eventual departure from search results. Adding auth proactively has produced effective results for me. The search … Read more
If an ajax call is indexed it compromises the whole purpose of the application. The cause here is that you are making your call using GET instead of POST as suggested: https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins The right way should be along something like : <?php add_action( ‘admin_footer’, ‘my_SHOP_javascript’ ); // Write our JS below here function my_SHOP_javascript() { … Read more
2 Domains, Same Content, Different Titles?
I don’t know about a plugin, but if you could just add the img URLs to your Disallows in robots.txt. Also, Google is probably getting the image URL from the image sitemap.
Links to root domain from search engines don’t work, but direct links and links from other referrers do
If you are using the default WordPress method of marking a post/page private, NO. This only prevents that post/page content from being viewable. Google (and other search bots) will not find private pages. Only logged in blog Editors and Administrators can see Private pages. So, while WordPress will not add the meta to block bots, … Read more
WordPress site using Yoast SEO being blocked from indexing by robots.txt
Highlighting Text in Search Results
Found the solution myself: Settings -> Reading -> Discourage search engines from indexing this site (must be blank)(bottom of page)
Add in the search parameter to your query: $search_filters = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘page’, // Doorzoekt alle post types ‘s’ => $keyword // show only posts that meet the current search query ); And above that you should just be able to grab the keyword right from your querystring like so: $keyword = $_GET[‘s’]; There’s … Read more