Re: robot meta tags

Theo Van Dinter (felicity@kluge.net)
Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:33:07 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Dan Gildor wrote:

> With the two robot meta tags, NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW, what do you do to
> specify that you want the page to neither be indexed nor to have its links
> not followed? something like:
>
> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">?
>
> or does noindex mean nofollow? or do you put two meta tags in, one for
> noindex, and one for nofollow and hope that the second meta tag doesn't

from the information that I found, you need to specify both the (no)index
and the (no)follow in the content at once. 'all' means 'index,follow'
(which is default), and 'none' means 'noindex,nofollow'.

the way I understood it is that 'noindex' means that you shouldn't index
the data on the page. 'nofollow' means don't go through the links.

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