Technical SEO
Meta Robots
An HTML meta tag that tells search engines how to handle a page regarding indexing and following links.
CurrentLast updated: 2026-09-16
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Technical SEOThe meta robots tag is an HTML meta tag placed in the head of a page that instructs search engines how to handle it. Common values include "noindex" (do not index) and "nofollow" (do not follow links). Unlike robots.txt, which controls crawling, meta robots controls indexing and link behavior at the page level.
meta-robotsnoindexnofollow
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