If you don’t know nothing about robots.txt and controlling robots through Meta tags -and don’t want to take the pain of editing the txt file in your root folder and disallowing each search engine crawler manually – worry not! There is an easy way to get this done in Wordpress.
Goto Dashboard> Options> Privacy settings.
You will find two options here.
1 – I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines
2 – I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors
Now, it’s obvious that the first option is what you need.Ensure that the second option is not selected.
What happens when you select the first(Correction – Second) option?
It causes the - meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex,nofollow’ to appear automatically into the page head section of every page. Thus it will not allow Google or any other search engine to crawl the site at all.
It also creates a robots.txt file in the root folder(Only if the WP installation is in the root folder, and there is no existing robots.txt file), in which the command for disallowing all crawlers into the entire directory.
Ensure that you select the first(I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines) radio button. Be a smart SEO. 
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Your posts makes no sense to me. At first you tell us to not select the second option because the first option is the one we need. See here:
“Ensure that the second option is not selected.”
Then you tell us the first option blocks Google or any other search engines from crawling our site at all (opposite of your previous statement) and tell us to select the 2nd radio button. I think the second half of your post is incorrect.
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Steven , thanks for notifying me. Actually i mean the second option.(See correction)
Sometimes, even an excessive dose of caffeine can’t stop you from typos.
Cheers!
Mani
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How do yo place ads randomly in the post?.
Do you use some wordpress adsense plugins?
I’ve disabled Javascript ,now ads are no longer visible to me.
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Disabling Javascript will make ur ads disappear. Javascript Ads are used by adsense and other suppliers as well.. They need JS enabled or else tragedy
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My Blog has 300 plus link, but google does not crawl all the link. any idea for google crawl ma all the links
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