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What Is the Robots "meta" Tag/Element?

The robots "meta" element is a special "meta" element that provides directives to robots who is visiting the XHTML document. The robots "meta" element must include the "name" attribute as, name="robots". The "content" attribute must use predefined values of:

  • content="index,follow" - Asking the robot to index the document, and follow links in the document.
  • content="noindex,nofollow" - Asking the robot to not index the document, and not follow links in the document.
  • content="index,nofollow" - Asking the robot to index the document, and not follow links in the document.
  • content="noindex,follow" - Asking the robot to not index the document, and follow links in the document.
  • content="all" - Same as content="index,follow".
  • content="none" - Same as content="noindex,nofollow".

Here is a good example of the robots meta element:

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />

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  1. What is the Top Level Structure of an XHTML Document?
  2. How Many Document Types Defined in XHTML 1.0?
  3. What Is the "html" Tag/Element?
  4. What is the Second Level Structure of an XHTML Document?
  5. What Is the "head" Tag/Element?
  6. What Is the "body" Tag/Element?
  7. How To Write a "head" Element Properly?
  8. What Is the "title" Tag/Element?
  9. What is a Smallest Valid XHTML Dodument?
  10. What Is Wrong with This "head" Element?
  11. What Happens If the "title" Element is Missing?
  12. What Happens If a "meta" Element Is Not Closed?
  13. What Is a "meta" Tag/Element?
  14. What Is the Description "meta" Tag/Element?
  15. What Is the Keywords "meta" Tag/Element?
  16. What Is the Robots "meta" Tag/Element?
  17. What Is a http-equiv "meta" Tag/Element?
  18. What Is the Author "meta" Tag/Element?
  19. What Is the "base" Tag/Element?
  20. What Is a "script" Tag/Element?
  21. What Is a "link" Tag/Element?
  22. What Is a "style" Tag/Element?


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