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
The basic problem for a script solution is: rel_canonical does not offer any useful filter. So we have to replace that function: remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘rel_canonical’ ); add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘t5_canonical_subpages’ ); The next problem: $GLOBALS[‘numpages’] is empty before setup_postdata(). We could call that function already here, but it might have side-effects. Here is a solution that … Read more