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On the WordPress Privacy Settings page under Blog Visibility there are two options to choose from:

1. I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers

2. I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors

What is the benefit/advantage of using one instead of the other?
 
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If you block search engines, you're not going to get any search engine traffic. The only traffic you will receive is from where ever you promoted your site and the people who already know about it.
 

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Sure amplify. I'm down with that part.

I do want to bring traffic to the blog. But I've read some places where people don't want the search engine robots to access and/or index every page on the blog.

Why would that be?
 

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emark where are you getting your information?
 
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There may be some files/folders on your site which you don't want to be visible.

For example...
Some don't want "images" folder indexed as one may be concerned about wasted traffics
when others sites hot linking to your images.

In this case, you can simply use "robots.txt" file to block such folders although I do not
block images folders since I am getting some traffics from Google images and I'll get links when
other sites hot link to my images.

Plus, cost of server traffics are not that expensive any more.
Sure amplify. I'm down with that part.

I do want to bring traffic to the blog. But I've read some places where people don't want the search engine robots to access and/or index every page on the blog.

My choice would be #1 ;)

Why would that be?
 

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1. Choose option 1
2. Google for .htaccess wordpress security.
 

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I do want to bring traffic to the blog. But I've read some places where people don't want the search engine robots to access and/or index every page on the blog.

That may be true but blocking all robots on the privacy settings page will cause your site not to be indexed in Google at all.

Here's a sample robots.txt file you can use which blocks things like your admin directory from being crawled: http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress#Robots.txt_Optimization
 

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Don't play much with robots file, unless you understand well what you are doing. Since it can destroy your ranking!

use it only if you have secure pages.
 
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