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You have to enable the Meta Robots module under the Page Modules. Then when you go back to the Page Settings screen for the Headspace2 settings, it will let you set defaults for various types of pages and when you edit/create a page/post it will let you set various robots meta tags.

As for whether it’s necessary or not, it depends. Do a site:yourdomain.com search and see what comes up. Sometimes some of your boilerplate pages, like the contact page, can come up pretty high because it’s linked from every other page. If you don’t want that, you can take it out.

People debate back and forth on keeping category pages and archive pages out of the index. The key thing is that if certain types of junk content are clouding up your search results, this is one way to get them out of the index. In general, though, I use it only for things that I never want in the index (I recently put up a demo of a site that will eventually live on another domain, so I blocked crawling entirely at the robots.txt level).

As far as I can tell, the latest HeadSpace2 has no “No-Index” option, only “No Follow” for links.

Are you still using HeadSpace2 and the “No-Index” option? I wonder why it has been removed from HeadSpace2, and if you think it still necessary, what’s an alternative plugin?

Many thanks.

>>John
The installation problem I had was a permissions problem that caused a fatal error. For some reason, when I unzipped the Headspace2 archive and FTPed it to the site everything had read-only perms (i.e. no write and no execute, even for “owner”). That caused a, if I recall, “failed to open stream” fatal PHP error. I’m not sure why the permissions were wrong, but of course that can happen when moving something from Windows to *nix because the permission systems are incompatible (and I don’t even remotely understand the Windows permissions system; I’m not even sure it’s a system!). I don’t know as there’s anything you can do about it, but it’s not something that usually happens. When I changed permissions, it went fine.
As for any other installation problems with Headspace2, I only know what I saw in your comments.

>>Uberdose. I’m not exactly a high traffic site and don’t expect to ever become one, but I’m happy to have you announce any releases in the comments.

I guess as this post gets outdated I’ll try to update it for future versions of both, since I think these are just killer plugins and I’m sorry more people don’t know about them. Forget about SEO – they make it more pleasant to visit sites.

John

Anyway, maybe I missed something with the AIOSP, but I didn’t think it had any functionality to batch edit the titles. So I used to add in SEO Title Tag for the batch operations. This is not really necessary if you install the AIOSP right from the get go, but for an older site where you might be changing lots of titles, it’s nice.

I’m traveling at the moment, but the minor DB “hack” (not really a hack, just a setting change) is because AIOSP offers the ability to change the label for storing the title, but in the admin interface the field is read-only, so you have to go into the MySQL command line and change the option directly in the DB. For some WordPress users, that might actually be beyond them.

As for AIOSP versus Headspace2, I have to say it’s a pretty close contest, but as far as I can tell H2 does everything that AIOSP does and more. Notably

• Batch operations on everything – titles, descriptions, post slugs and more
• one-click installation for Google Analytics, Mint, Statcounter. Personally, this is not enough to get me to choose one over the other, but it does save a little effort modifying the theme
• Ability to turn plugins and javascript on and off for single pages (don’t ever see myself doing this, so I don’t actually care)
• Modify the “more” text. I think this is sort of nice actually.

Why did you need the combination and not only one of them?