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Use META Tags to Prevent Search Engine Indexing

 


Web Source Web Design Tips
by Shelley Lowery

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.

 


Tip provided by: Web Source: Your Guide to Professional Web Design and Development. http://www.web-source.net






 

 

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