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<meta name="robot" content="index,follow" What does it mean in HTML?

18th Jul 2018, 2:55 PM
Ajay Parmar
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It specifies instructions for search engines https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_tag name="robot" means that the content applies to all search engines. content="index, follow" means that your page is visible in web crawlers search results (visible on google etc...) and that the crawlers also goes through your links on the page.
18th Jul 2018, 3:05 PM
Toni Isotalo
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If you want to target specific web crawler you can change the robot to the crawler user-agent.
18th Jul 2018, 3:10 PM
Toni Isotalo
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The <meta> tag shows some special config that cannot be represented by other built-in tags. You can also add secure-policy to the page by using <meta> tags. It usually contains two attributes, name and content, and do not have any content inside the tag. In this case, the tag represents a data named robot and has a content of index,yellow.
18th Jul 2018, 2:59 PM
LAWArthur
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LAWArthur I knew That But My Question is What is the use of "Robot" in meta name.
18th Jul 2018, 3:02 PM
Ajay Parmar
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Toni Isotalo Thanks a lot!!
18th Jul 2018, 3:09 PM
Ajay Parmar
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