FYI: WordPress has a privacy setting that hides your web site from search engines, say, while you’re setting it up. Makes sense, but I was unaware of this until I saw the meta tag “noindex,nofollow” in one of my customer’s sites. You can review it at Settings > Privacy. Oddly, some of my sites had it disabled (meaning, come search me, google!) and others had it enabled — without my explicitly doing so. Suffice to say they are all “exposed” to crawlers now.

Ironically, the one site where Privacy was “enabled” was the one I had put the most effort into SEO-optimization. Feh!

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