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Robots meta tag

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Author: Colin McDermott

What is the Robots meta tag?

The Robots meta tag can contain one or more comma separated values which instruct search engines as to how a resource should be indexed and/or its links crawled.

Possible values include NoindexNofollow, Noarchive and Indexifembedded

Index, Follow is the default value so does not need to be expressed.

Example

An example robots meta tag with a noindex value in the Head area of a web-page.

<head>
      <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
</head>

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