The setting is stored in the options table under the key blog_public, the value is either 0 or 1. You can see the value of all options by manually visiting the page /wp-admin/options.php. A quick way to get rid of it would be to remove the noindex action hooked to wp_head, which is what outputs … Read more
WordPress › Relevanssi – A Better Search « WordPress Plugins Key features: Search results sorted in the order of relevance, not by date. Fuzzy matching: match partial words, if complete words don’t match. Find documents matching either just one search term (OR query) or require all words to appear (AND query). Search for phrases with … Read more
Any reasons you couldn’t put an anchor link to the actual page in your tab control? Then use jQuery to make sure it returns false and doesn’t “work” for normal visitors. In fact, that’s what the jQuery Tabs control page suggests: Tabs supports loading tab content via Ajax in an unobtrusive manner. The HTML you … Read more
Yoast SEO is set up to do this for you on a per-page basis. If you aren’t using Yoast already, I’d strongly recommend it – there are advanced controls for SEO, indexing, redirecting, etc.
I’m unaware about the code written within the condition for search page. But the following code instead of your one would have to work: if (is_search()) { the_content(); } Try and let me know.
How exactly are you setting up your home page? I think the problem is with it having unwanted pagination in first place and not that pagination being indexed. In general robots.txt file is good way to prevent indexing in bulk. I think it would be following directive in your case (please test it so it … Read more
If you are using an SEO plugin such as Yoast, it automatically adds all Custom Post Types (and Taxonomies) to the sitemap that is used by Google & other search engines. You will need to explicitly exclude them from the sitemap e.g in Yoast, this is under the “Post Types”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”Taxomonies” tab in the “XML Sitemaps” … Read more
The setting is stored in the option blog_public. if( 0 == get_option( ‘blog_public’ ) ){ echo ‘search engines discouraged’; }
To search for a custom post type , you can add to the query &post_type=events , to achieve this just edit your form like this <form id=”searchform” action=”http://localhost:8888/ltc” method=”get”> <input class=”inlineSearch” type=”text” name=”s” value=”Enter a keyword” onblur=”if (this.value == ”) {this.value=”Enter a keyword”;}” onfocus=”if (this.value == ‘Enter a keyword’) {this.value=””;}” /> <input type=”hidden” name=”post_type” value=”events” … Read more
FWIW, trackback URLs issue redirects and have no content, so they won’t get indexed. And at the risk of not answering the question, RE your points 2 and 3: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html Put otherwise, I think you’re wasting your time worrying about dup content, and your robots.txt should be limited to: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /wp-admin … Read more