Last time we discussed how to prevent search engines to index your web pages using Meta Robots exclusion or Robots.txt. Today I want to show you how to do that on most popular blogging software – WordPress.

Simpler way

Step 1: Download & Install the WordPress Plugin called Platinum SEO

The function of this is similar to another popular SEO plugin named “All-in-One-seo” but it does not allow you to add the meta robots tag where you want to disallow which post or pages that you don’t want search engine have access on.

Step 2: Unzip the file in your local hard disk and upload the whole package to your web host /wp-contents/plugin directory.
using a ftp program. The FTP program that I preferred will be Filezilla, which you can get it free at http://www.filezilla.org/

Step 3. After Finished uploading, you need to log in your blog using the ‘admin’ account and activate the plugins.

Step 4: Once activate your plugin, you can manage the option like noindex, nofollow, index, follow, noindex, follow, or index, nofollow in the meta robots tags.

Watch the video below for step by step how to:

Harder way

This involves changing wordpress PHP code, I am not sure how to add the code on each post but sure
you can do it with every wordpress page that you create. But the steps will be more complicated such as creating an empty page template, editing the raw PHP code of the page template and upload back it to the host.

For average computer user the simpler way will do.