MetaExtension robots
Is used to tell crawler-robots of search engines which sites to index. We recommend using a robots.txt-file (opens in a new tab) insteads of those meta-extensions or a combination of both.
Usage
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">content may be:
| content | Usage |
|---|---|
all | Standard: No restrictions, indexes all pages, doesn't need to be specified |
index,follow | Equivalent to all |
noindex | Page will not be shown in search results |
nofollow | Do not follow (internal) links on this page |
none | Equivalent to noindex, nofollow |
noarchive | Do not cache the page, do not show a "Show in cache"-link in search results |
nosnippet | Do not show a text/video snippet in search results |
notranslate | Do not offer translation of this page in search results |
noimageindex | Do not index images on this page, do not show images in search results |
unavailable_after: [date/time] | Do not show this page in search results after [date/time] |
Usage samples
<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,noarchive">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow,nosnippet">
<meta name="robots" content="index,unavailable_after: 2021-08-18">Results
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nosnippet:FEN MetaTag Documentation https://faq.frontendnet.work No description available -
noarchive¬ranslate:FEN MetaTag Documentation https://faq.frontendnet.work FEN MetaTag Documentation for HTML and popular Meta Tags
Read more about the MetaExtension robots at Google Search Central (opens in a new tab).
Read more about robots.txt at Google Developers Docs (opens in a new tab).
Also see revisit and revisit-after.