The name="robots" Metatag
HTML 5 metatag Elements
The name="robots" HTML metatag
The robots metatag provides directives for search engine crawlers.
- archive / noarchive
- indicates whether or not the page should be archived by a search engine
- follow / nofollow
- indicates whether or not the robot 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 search engine results
- index / noindex
- indicates whether or not the page should be included in the search engine's 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 robots should discontinue crawling and indexing the page
Examples
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow"/>
<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow"/>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>
Prev: rating
Next: verify
Home > HTML5 Metatags > robots
Viewing mobile website page.
Switch to WML or Full HTML