Advice Please - NOINDEX Meta Robot Tag

Hi,

My website is 6 years old and I have just had it re-designed by my webmaster and have discovered the following meta Robot tag in the source code <meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" />

Is this a problem?

Thanks

 

<meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" />

[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]What is Noindex: Tells the bot not to index the page.
What is Nofollow: Tells it not to follow any link.[/FONT]

The code which is showing in your website it means NO FOLLOW & NO INDEX the page.

You should use like this code:
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] <meta name="robots" content="index, follow"/>[/FONT]

 

Thanks for the reply, it is really appreciated.

Could this be the cause as to why my site is not showing up for keywords I have previously been SERP 1 to 5 for?

 

If you DO want your pages in search engines, then DO NOT use the tag. By default, the major search engines will index any page they find. Yes, there is a form of the meta robots tag you can use to explicitly tell search engines to index your pages. It looks like this:

<meta name=”robots” content=”index”>
There’s also a form you can use that adds the command “follow,” which tells the search engines to index your page and also follow any links they find on that page to other pages, which they can then index. It looks like this

<meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow”>
Google writes today to summarize several options you can use. Quoting Google:

NOINDEX – prevents the page from being included in the index.
NOFOLLOW – prevents Googlebot from following any links on the page. (Note that this is different from the link-level NOFOLLOW attribute, which prevents Googlebot from following an individual link.)
NOARCHIVE – prevents a cached copy of this page from being available in the search results.
NOSNIPPET – prevents a description from appearing below the page in the search results, as well as prevents caching of the page.
NOODP – blocks the Open Directory Project description of the page from being used in the description that appears below the page in the search results.

 

These tags stop Crawler to index and follow your website.

 

Taht's a HUGE problem if it applies to the whole site!

 

it should be index, follow.