Meta Robot tags to hide content from search engines

  • Salutations, at SwamiSriAtmananda.com we’re running two password-protected categories that visitors pay to access. (Not using a membership plugin because that seems like overkill.) There is just a single password that they receive on a redirect from PayPal. Password changes each week. Until WP 3.4.1 came out, the Robots Meta plugin seemed effective at keeping the password-protected content from appearing on search engines. That plugin hasn’t been updated for years and seemed to stop working with the advent of 3.4.1 so we switched to SEO Ultimate which is not working with the majority of posts. Any ideas on how to fix, or otherwise optimize this situation will be most appreciated.

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  • you can use meta robots in your <head></head> area

    <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”/>

    or via robots.txt in your server/host root folder (which usually public_html).

    let’s say you have a page located on https://example.com/mypage

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /mypage/

    John

    (@johnlamansky)

    Go to SEO > Meta Robots Tags > Posts and check off “noindex” for the members-only posts.

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