Why is WP setup to not be indexed?

  • jheller

    (@jheller)


    18 years ago

    I just discovered that all of my pages have the following META tag:

    <meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex,nofollow’ />

    What’s the deal here? Is this not preventing Google et al from indexing my site? All I could find was mention of comment spam, but that was in reference to links, not the meta tag.

    I just can’t figure out why WordPress would come setup to prevent indexing, when most of the users want to be indexed in search engines. Unless I’m misunderstanding this tag. If not, how do I remove it?

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    On the Options->Privacy config screen is an option called “Blog visibility”. This controls whether or not that meta tag is added to all the pages (as well as a few other things). If you set it to block search engines, that’s how it does it.

    Thread Starter jheller

    (@jheller)

    No idea how I missed that. Thanks a lot!

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