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Special Meta Tags for Search Engines​

Meta robot tags are directives that search engines will always respect. Adding these robots tags can make the indexation of your website easier. Meta robots tags orrobots.txt files are directives and will always be obeyed. Canonical tags are recommendations that Google can decide to obey or not.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

The robots tag is very common, by default, it has value index,follow, all is also valid.

  • noindex
    • Not show this page in search results.
    • Omitting noindex will nidicate the page can be indexed and shown in search results.
    • Sample Use Cases: Settings, policies, internal search pages.
  • nofollow
    • To not follow links on this page.
    • Omitting this will allow robots to crawl and follow links on this page. Links found on other pages may enable crawling, so if link A appears in pagesX and Y, and X has a nofollow robots tag, but Y doesn't, Google may decide to crawl the link.

You can see a full list of directives in the Google official documentation.

Googlebot Tags​

<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex,nofollow" />

Googlebox specific tag.

<meta name="google" content="nositelinkssearchbox" />

When users search for your site, Google Search results sometimes display a search box specific to your site, along with other direct links to your site. This tag tells Google not to show the sitelinks search box.

<meta name="google" content="notranslate" />

Ask google not to provide a translation for the page.

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