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1. D-dig
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   <meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' />
   How to change to index, follow?

   I haven't robots.txt file
   Worpress version 2.8.4

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_Wordpress#Meta_Tags
   use this to create one or use a plugin
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sem-dofollow/

3. pikespeak
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Ok, be forewarned you are dealing with a complete newbie here. I was looking at my code from a post on my blog trying to figure out how to put a "to read more..." command in so I could shorten my posts on the home page.(still need help with that) and saw <meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' />
   in the code. Does that mean that google or whoever is not going to index my site, post or what? If so how do I change it to index and rank the heck out of the site?

4. pikespeak
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I've been reading different threads while I wait for an answer and now I'm really confused. The blog I'm talking about is actually new but classified as being in August's archive. Does that mean that wp automatically puts a nofollow on it to prevent google from picking up duplicate info and hurting you pr? (just what I read). And I also read that the noindex, nofollow tag from above has something to do with incoming and out going links???

5. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   <meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' />
   How to change to index, follow?

   Go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Privacy and select "I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers".

6. pikespeak
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   iridiax

   Thanks, then that will this be the best for getting the site indexed and ranked?

7. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If you leave it noindex,nofollow, you won't get indexed or ranked because this command is telling the search engine crawler robots to stay away.

8. pikespeak
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I changed the privacy setting so I should be all set for indexing, right?

9. IanSR
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello

   I have the privacy setting checked so that my blog is open to search engines and the public, but after checking it using submitexpress
   It still shows me that "Spider robots are not allowed to spider the web page"

   How can I change this?

   kind regards

10. mrmist
    Forum Janitor
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Look at the robots.txt file in your site root to see what it is allowing.

11. IanSR
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hello
    I have looked and I have no robots.txt file anywhere.
    Is it possible to make one?

    Thanks for your advise.

    Regardss

12. IanSR
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hello

    Found a website that helped me write a simple robots.txt file

    this is what it recommends for all robots to look at all files and directories.

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

    Is this correct and do you have anything to add.

    kind regards

13. mrmist
    Forum Janitor
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Disallow: /

    Would mean that no robots index your content. You would want

    Allow: /

    If you want a really simple robots file to allow crawling.

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