Preventing Search Engines From Indexing a Web Page


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Preventing Search Engines From Indexing a Web Page

If you're looking for a way to prevent Search Engines from indexing a web page, this web design tip is for you.

Meta tags are used to give detailed instructions in regard to a web page to the Search Engines and browsers.

Many times, you may have a web page that you don't want the Search Engines to index. To help with this problem, add one of the following codes between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of your HTML.

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">

This tag tells the robots not to index this page and not to follow any links within the page.

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,FOLLOW">

This tag tells the robots not to index this page, but follow any links within the page.

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