Programming.a.baby - (Html5) Meta Tags Robots Index - Follow Noindex Nofollow
By pol1ce
Article 4
What you should already Know about Meta Tags
Hi again, if you read my Previous articles ( Programming.a.baby - (Html5) Meta Tags ) and ( Programming.a.baby - (Html5) Meta Tags B) you should know already the follow:
- What is a Meta Tag
- What kind of Meta Tags exists
- Where to put the Meta Tags
- How to set a Page's Head with the necessary Meta Tag's
If not you should take a look on both and then return here, thank you.
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What is Robots MetaTag
A Robot Meta Tag is used inside a web page for the following reasons:
- Tell web crawlers and spiders which pages they can read
- Tell Search Engines web crawlers what they can index inside their data bases
Lets explain this in a easy way, shall we?
Suppose you have a web page that you would love search engines to index it's URL inside their data bases, but some other pages from your web site you do not want them to read, crawl or index it.
with the Robots Meta Tag you can automaticaly tell them this.
Now lets see two examples of Robots Meta Tags, that tell them to read and index it all your web site
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Example (Index All)
<meta name="robots" content="all" /> <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
Note that the first one is very simple, since you want them to read and index all of it.
But if you want to personalize, you should use the second one
In the second one you can read "index, follow",
- the first refers to you main web page where normally you have all the hyperlinks,
- The second refers to the other pages on your website visible when people click the links in the main page
Personalize it
You can use it in 4 different ways
- "Index, follow" - everything is indexed
- "noIndex, nofollow" - nothing is indexed
- "Index, nofollow" - only first page is indexed
- "noIndex, follow" - only the other pages can be indexed
Watch the 4 examples below:
The four ways
<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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Comments
Thz azimimpossible for your comment.
I'm checking your Hubs.
thank you dude..same here.
;) Alright
You don't even use these tags yourself.
Hummm, is not true, i use these metatags yes.
Next time, maybe you would like to give me an sample of what subject, and website you are talking about, i will apreciate your comment, true i will, thanks
sure
azimimpossible 15 months ago
first comment.Any ways nice hub.i hopped you..cheers man.m new:(