Rather than using the add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wp_no_robots’, 1 ); Try using add_filter( ‘wp_robots’, ‘wp_robots_no_robots’ ); In your code you are actually trying to add one more function call to pre called function rather than just changing its value to noindex. Use add_filter instead. 🙂
I really can’t believe this, but sometimes the answer is really simple I just forgot to clear the Cloudflare cache It’s more than a week which I am trying to fix this problem O_o
Your question is a bit out of the scope of this site, but according to Google, creating any URL without content would not be beneficial for SEO. It would likely work better SEO-wise to create a custom post type that has no archive, so you have the parent slug you’re wanting in the URL without … Read more
You can fetch all the different post_types you have by using get_post_types(). Then you can loop through all posts of each post_types and echo all these posts (title + link). That way you have the freedom of formatting your sitemap the way you want.
It’s a little hard to answer this question definitively, but typically, adding semantic markup can benefit SEO (because robots understand what they’re parsing better) and can benefit end users (because their various technologies, which could include screen readers among many others, also understand what they’re parsing better). Search engines and screen readers also often present … Read more
Stupid me… I have a nginx directive that set X-Robots-Tag to none for every page. I thought it was some kind of null value for the header… Now that I took some time to RTFM, I learned that none means both noindex and nofollow… So it wouldn’t let the SEO plugin do its job. Now … Read more
WP_DEBUG is a constant which you can define in wp-config.php to disable hiding of PHP errors and notices. Add define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); to your config file to enable it. Just remember to never leave it on for long on a live blog. Since all pings fail this is likely not an issue with specific sitemap service, … Read more
The problem had a very simple cause – the WP privacy settings were set to “hide blog” without me noticing, that’s why the website did not get craweled well by Google.
Unless the permalink structure has category in it, changing category won’t give 404 as the URL will be the same, and just content of category pages will change. If you have date format (year/month/date) in your permalink structure, then changing the date of the post, will break the link and will return a 404 but … Read more
Read this http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html There are several WordPress SEO plugins that can help, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=canonical&sort=