Jean-Baptiste Jung has a quick little post about keeping single posts or pages out of search engines.
To achieve, first get the ID of the post you’d like to be not indexed by search engines. In this example, I assume your post id is 17. Open your header.php file and paste the following code between theandtags:
<?php if ($post->ID == 17) { echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex">'; }
You can also do this in the WordPress interface. Most themes have an SEO area for these settings on each page or post. For instance, I’m using Simplicity from WooThemes on this site. Their SEO settings area looks like this:
If I don’t want this post to show up in search engines, I can check the options for no follow and no index.
Additionally, there are a few more steps if you truly don’t want your page to be found.
Carol links to WP Hide Post and adds a reminder to check your site map (she uses Dagon Design’s plugin).
Of course, you can do all of this by manually updating the code.
Hope you found this useful!
