Control page indexing with robots meta tag
The robots meta tag indicates which pages you want search engines to crawl for indexing and/or scan for links to follow.
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
- Navigate to Site tools > Dashboard > Site Administration > Template directory.
- Find the template Site Header.
- Click the pencil icon to the right of it to edit.
- In Edit mode, add the appropriate meta tag in a DekiScript field.
Add meta tag to individual page
- Open a page in Edit mode.
- 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");