It's important to have those 2 files in your root folder, simply because you don't want G00gl3 to find out that you are using aut0bl0g plugins. Make a text file and insert the following text into it: Sitemap: /sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-content/cache/ Disallow: /wp-content/themes/ Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/ Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /wp-includes/ Disallow: /wp-login.php Rename it to: Robot.txt and place it in the root WP folder together with all the wp-content, wp-admin and wp-includes folders. Next up is .htaccess, which should be there. If you can't see it with your FTP client then check for an option which allows you to see invisible files. Should be located in the root folder too. Add this to it: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress If you still can't find it, then simply upload a regular text file and name it exactly .htaccess with no extentions like .txt or .php! You can see how this would be beneficial in keeping the BAN HAMMER away!
It's basically just editing your robots.txt file. I don't really see why Google makes it such a big deal because it's an aut0bl0gg. Yugo,