I don't want any of the back-end parts of my site, etc, to show up in search engines... only the important page, my sales page. The rest is password protected. How can I using Wordpress most effectively shoo search engines away from everything else except my static home page?
Use something like this in your robots.txt file: User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /dcma-notice/ Disallow: /terms/ Disallow: /privacy/ Disallow: /links/ Disallow any paths that you don't want search engines to index. Place the robots.txt file in the root of your web server (public_html/robots.txt for example)
Although Google can only index what it can crawl and if the pages are password protected it can't crawl...