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

See http://www.Google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79812

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