Comments on: Wordpress noindex nofollow meta tags problem

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:27:36 +0000

Thanks for the helpful post!
I was wondering why our site was removed from all search engines when we moved to WordPress. I actually laughed (and cursed quite a bit) when I found out why.

Great clear explanation on how to undo the damage.

By: Josh Ewin

Josh Ewin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:56:52 +0000

I can understand not wanting the whole Lorem Ipsum or Hello World bit to be indexed, however this setting needs to be *MUCH* more prominent. I’ve been deactivating/reactivating each of my plugins, skins, etc, etc, etc ad nauseum trying to remove that damned noindex,nofollow tag. Seriously, I was close to going postal on my PC.

*Thank you* for this thread – it saved allot of anguish!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:54:10 +0000

@Eldee Good article. There actually is good reason for it being there and set to private. Many blog and web developers (for lack of a spectacular internal server) have no choice but to put a site online before it is finished, in essence while they are still building the site. In terms of SEO, yes this is problematic to have it turned off from search engines, but the alternate situation is far worse. I’ve had 4 different domains ‘burned’ by the big ‘G’ because I was still building the site, had the ‘lorem ipsum dolor’ text on the site and accidentally had the index on. So the big ‘G’ looked at my site, decided it was garbage and sandboxed me for 9months+. So, my point in the end is, its better to have it off by default and have to turn it on then the alternative.

By: Architektur

Architektur — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:21:56 +0000

Thanks this worked. It is also helpfull to install a seo pack like the platinum seo pack to to generate the tag index follow.

By: Adil

Adil — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:50:21 +0000

Now verify the existence of meta tags in the input URLs and Compare the calculated length of each with its corresponding Google standard length and get reports the appropriate analysis with
http://siteopsys.com/meta-tag-analyzer.tool

By: Rakesh Solanki

Rakesh Solanki — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:36:36 +0000

Thank you for showing importance of nofollow and dofollow attributes.

By: bootcat

bootcat — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:14:21 +0000

thank you man,
your post really saved me a lots of time .

though i knew the settings exist , in my new blog i failed to set the configuration .

hence no crawlers or bots visited my site .

its http://www.katrinakaifs.com . thank you and your post really helped .

By: Spark

Spark — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:20:00 +0000

Same here!
However i was kinda of lucky since i only start to working WP and building links a few weeks.

Manage to spot it before it’s really get to damage my site. Thanks

By: Gregor

Gregor — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:24:44 +0000

I just found out about this as well and killed a huge client’s SERP with this… It should come back after a while, but there might be some serious damage done.

I also found some other sites based on WP that had this turned on accidentally.