Onpage Optimization Factors: Meta Tags

Robots Meta Tag

The robots meta tag is related to the robots.txt protocol in function. Its purpose is to instruct search engine crawlers whether or not to crawl an individual page for indexing and whether or not to follow the links. The default is "index,follow" and is what will apply by default if the tag is omitted. Using "index,no follow" should exclude the page from being indexed.

Proper format for the robots meta tag:

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">

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