Index, Follow

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    I've had conflicting advice on whether or not I should use <meta name="robots" content="index,follow">. Opinions?
     
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  2. rainborick

    rainborick Well-Known Member

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    There's nothing explicitly wrong with using "index,follow". It's just that those are the defaults for search engines, so they have no practical effect.
     
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  3. sisatel

    sisatel Active Member

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    I think "all, index, follow" is the beater option.
     
    sisatel, Aug 12, 2012 IP
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    rainborick is on the money -- those are the DEFAULTS, so why would you waste bandwidth saying it in the markup? That's just as idiotic when it comes to code bloat as putting a TITLE on a anchor that's identical to the anchor's content. (unless you happen to be writing an accesskeys menu).. or putting the same class on every LI in a list.

    UNLESS you are trying to bypass a robots.txt - but since that is typically read FIRST, they shouldn't even get as far as the markup in that case.

    So no! Relax, don't do it. When you want to go through it...
     
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    dcrackmind Peon

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    Wow, sounds great@
    Let's have a look, what to use:

    Either index,follow or index,nofollow

    If you choose index,follow, means search engines will follow the articles containing index,follow tag.

    Or

    If you choose index,nofollow, then Search Engines will not be able to follow the articles containing index,nofollow tag.
     
    dcrackmind, Aug 14, 2012 IP
  6. MaryMach

    MaryMach Greenhorn

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    Thanks, everyone . . . I'm not going to waste any time or bandwidth on it.
     
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  7. deathshadow

    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    Uhm... NO!

    There is no value called INDEX, there is no value called FOLLOW. It's NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW. Those are really the only two that should be ever used... index,nofollow is just as wasteful because index is the DEFAULT. Don't waste time saying the DEFAULT!
     
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    creativewebmaster Active Member

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    index folllow is better idea.
     
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    lucyaunt Peon

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    good knowledge
     
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