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