noindex, nofollow for entire Wordpress installation in a subdirectory?
So, I have Wordpress running in the root directory of my webspace; I'll install another Wordpress instance in a subdirectory of the same server in a couple of days for testing purposes. So here's the thing, I don't want this Wordpress instance, any of it's pages, posts or anything from that subdirectory to show up in Google and the like. So I'm looking for a way to apply noindex, nofollow (and what else?) to this subdirectory and all files and subdirectories in it. What is the easiest way to achieve this (for example, can I use the .htaccess file, or is there a wordpress plugin that does this for me)?
I't very important that the main Wordpress installation and it's SEO are not affected by this.
From your Dashboard go to:
- Settings -> Reading
- In Reading, near the bottom of the screen there is an option called "Site Visibility"
- Change that option to "Discourage search engines from indexing this site"
- Save those changes
Refresh the site and take a look at the source, there is now a <meta name='robots' content='noindex,follow' /> on each page. Also in the robots.txt file there is not the following
User-agent: *
Disallow: /