The name="googlebot" Metatag
HTML 5 metatag
Elements
The name="googlebot"
HTML metatag
The googlebot
metatag is equivalent to the robots metatag but provides directives specifically for the Googlebot robot and is supposed to be ignored by other web robots, crawlers and spiders.
- archive / noarchive
- indicates whether or not the page should be archived by Google
- follow / nofollow
- indicates whether or not Googlebot should continue to crawl other pages referenced in the hypertext links on the page
- imageindex / noimageindex
- indicates whether or not the page should appear as the referring page for images that appear in Google's search results
- index / noindex
- indicates whether or not the page should be included in Google's search index
- odp / noodp
- indicates whether or not the description from the
ODP
should be used
- snippet / nosnippet
- indicates whether or not a snippet of the web page should be shown in the search engine's results
- unavailable_after:date
- allows specifying the time and date that Googlebot should discontinue crawling and indexing the page
Examples
<meta name="googlebot" content="noarchive"/>
See http://www.Google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79812
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