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What Is Robots Meta Tag?

A page-level tag (e.g. noindex, nofollow) that controls indexing and link following.

By Junaid Tariq · Updated · 1 min read
Definition

A page-level tag (e.g. noindex, nofollow) that controls indexing and link following.

What Robots Meta Tag means

A page-level tag (e.g. noindex, nofollow) that controls indexing and link following.

Why it matters

The robots meta tag is the reliable way to keep a crawlable page out of Google’s index, using noindex.

Practical tip

Don’t block a noindexed page in robots.txt, or Google can’t see the noindex. See robots.txt explained.

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