Web Source Web Design Tips - Using META Tags to Prevent Search Engine Indexing


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 and
tags of your HTML.


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


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

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Shelley Lowery
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