Control page indexing with robots meta tag

What is meta.robots?

meta.robots or the robots meta tag tells the search engine not to show a specific page in the search results. By default, most search engines index pages they find.

• Robots can ignore the <meta> tag, especially malware robots that scan the site used by spammers.
• The "nofollow" attribute only applies to links on the desired page.
• Do not confuse "nofollow" with rel="nofollow" link attribute.
  • rel="nofollow" is an attribute that can be set on a HTML <a> link tag.
    Example: <a href="happy.jpg" rel="nofollow">Happy</a>
  • These links do not get credited when Google ranks sites in search results.

Add meta tag to header template

1. Navigate to Site tools > Dashboard > Site Administration > Template directory.
2. Find the template Site Header.
3. Click the pencil icon to the right of it to edit.
4. In Edit mode, add the appropriate meta tag in a DekiScript field.

Add meta tag to individual page

1. Open a page in Edit mode.
2. Add the appropriate meta tag in a DekiScript field.

Meta tag examples

To index pages and follow any links on that page:

meta.robots("index,follow");

To hide pages from search engines:

meta.robots("noindex");

To tell search engines not to follow links:

meta.robots("nofollow");