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Meta Robots Tag

An HTML meta tag controlling crawler indexing and link-following behaviour.

Meta robots accepts directives like index/noindex, follow/nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noimageindex and max-snippet. Multiple directives can be combined comma-separated. Different bots can be targeted using name="googlebot" or "bingbot". The same directives can be applied site-wide via X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers, useful for non-HTML resources like PDFs.

Related Entries

noindex Meta Tag

A directive telling search engines not to include a page in their index.

nofollow Attribute

A link attribute telling search engines not to pass authority through a link.

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