Comments on: Learn from My Mistakes: Blog Visibility WordPress Option

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:08:03 +0000

I’m lucky to find this article.
I found difficulties to activate robot.txt , Technorati had been failed to access my blog but finally I read here and get the root cause.
Thanks…good work

By: John

John — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:07:53 +0000

ROFL – Glad it’s not just me then. I have been scratching my head over why a new WP based web site wasn’t showing and discovered the problem yesterday. Hopefully things wil return to normal soon!

By: Matt Kelly

Matt Kelly — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:06:57 +0000

Wow. I just checked a small blog I was running and had the same issue! Looks like it was a problem with v2.6, as my v2.7 blog had the correct setting!

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By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:07:55 +0000

I made a similar mistake recently. I had been converting an old Harry Potter website from static pages to Wordpress, and I was putting WP in a separate “wordpress” folder. I had the “no search engines” option on so the directory wouldn’t be indexed while I worked on things. When I finished everything up and moved WP’s index.php and .htaccess out into the root, I forgot to disable the option. A week or two later, I was wondering why Technorati wasn’t listing any incoming links…

So I realized I’d forgot to flip the switch, and ran over to the Options page. I think Google hadn’t been back yet, so I’m lucky I guess.

By: balibuddy

balibuddy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:17:52 +0000

I should set my own target too, but my skill isn’t that good , any tips??? helps

By: Richard Bizick

Richard Bizick — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:40:38 +0000

damn man, thats tough luck…atleast it should be back in no time

By: iPhone Wallpapers

iPhone Wallpapers — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:01:38 +0000

Outstanding piece of information. Thanks Ben for posting these lessons for us readers. I would have never thought about it.

By: Rebecca Laffar-Smith

Rebecca Laffar-Smith — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:50:58 +0000

Another reason to use this feature might be for those who want a private blog shared amongst family and friends but not openly accessible for the world at large. Of course, it wouldn’t prevent the link from spreading but it would dramatically slow down the blogs connection with the cyberworld.

Thanks for the tip and an idea of the impact caused. I’ll certainly remember to double check that feature regularly. I’m also now wondering what my robots.txt might be affecting, I’ll have to check that out today.