Meta Tags ‘NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW’

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The meta tags are in the header of a web page, that is, between the <head> tags. There are some webmasters out there that use the meta tag <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"> on their links page or directory. This means that search engine robots will not index (NOINDEX) or follow (NOFOLLOW) the links on that page.

The use of <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"> is most commonly seen during link exchanges where webmasters try to retain their PageRank by instructing search engine robots not to index or follow their links pages or links directory.

Impact of this meta tags on link exchanges

A link on a web page using robots meta tag is not completely useless. If your link is on a web page that uses this robots meta tag, your link would not be counted towards your web site’s link popularity. However, visitors may still find your web site through this link.

Detecting meta “NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW”

Detecting this robots meta tags is quite simple. The meta tag can be clearly seen in the source code of the web page. Look within the <head> tags near the top of the source code.

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  2. Thank you for advice!!!

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  4. Thanks for this info! Very useful for some work I’m doing tonight on one of my pages that I don’t want indexed!

    Comment by Nissan Sentra — April 22, 2009

  5. I’m using robots.txt if i don’t want my page to be indexed by google.

    Comment by Michael Amban — July 28, 2009

  6. How can we use robots.txt to stop google from indexing a particular page on my website?

    Comment by web2sms — September 9, 2009

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  8. very good article for SEO purpose , thr are many meta tags , which people dont know . meta tag is very useful for search engine optimization

    Comment by Captainportal.com — December 7, 2009

  9. I am looking for these information so many days today i got, thanks for sharing

    Comment by 24ondemand — February 26, 2010

  10. The above information & comment is very accurate. We also find the no index or nofollw of any link page by only right clicking those page and see the “view page info”. you can find it

    Comment by Nitin — March 7, 2010

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