The robots META tag is similar to robots.txt, its placed in the head section of an HTML page.

In robots meta tag -

  • The “NAME” attribute is “ROBOTS”.
  • The “CONTENT” attribute are: “INDEX”, “NOINDEX”, “FOLLOW”, “NOFOLLOW”.

Do not index the content of a page, scan it for links to follow.

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

Indexing content of a page is allowed, but dont not scan it for links to follow.

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

Do not index the content of a page, and do not scan it for links to follow.

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

Related Topic:
http://ganeshhs.com/search-engine-optimization-seo/seo-robotstxt

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