When your site is finished and live, what basics do YOU do to ensure it runs smoothly?

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In addition to what @manofdogz said, checking the box on a page by page basis, you can use a robots.txt file on your site.
There are many posts about robots.txt files, the significant advantages are you can keep all the noindex stuff in one place, and Google has a useful testing tool to make sure it works.

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robots.txt is a separate file in your root directory. We talked about this earlier in the year; you can create one with RW or a text editor: don’t forget to test this! - A messed up robots.txt file can stop search engines from indexing all or part of your site.