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robots meta tag. please help me.

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by king_cobra, Mar 28, 2005.

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    <meta name="robots" content="all">

    this is what i gave in my robots meta tag. And since then my forum has had no googlebot visits.

    Is this a coincidence or is this a mistake?

    Which is preferrable?

    <meta name="robots" content="index, follow"> or the one i specified.
     
    king_cobra, Mar 28, 2005 IP
  2. Mel

    Mel Peon

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    The best thing to do IMO is just to leave that meta tag out of your page entirely if you want all your pages indexed and the links followed as that is the default action of all spiders if they do not find something that tells then not to index or follow.
     
    Mel, Mar 30, 2005 IP
  3. cozza

    cozza Guest

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    i use this <meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> it seems to work very well
     
    cozza, Mar 31, 2005 IP
  4. Bernard

    Bernard Well-Known Member

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    That may well be the cause of your spidering problems. I agree with Mel. Just get rid of the tag entirely unless you are trying to restrict spidering behavior.
     
    Bernard, Mar 31, 2005 IP
  5. Blagger

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    If you use the tag <meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> as cozza stated, then you are completely covered. The statement tells the bot to index and follow links. Why risk anything else, it's the correct meta?
     
    Blagger, Apr 2, 2005 IP
  6. ziandra

    ziandra Well-Known Member

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    I use

    <META name="Robots" content="index, follow">

    On those pages I want indexed and

    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW,NOARCHIVE">

    On those I want left alone. One of the many SEO tools out there puke up errors if you don't have a robots meta.
     
    ziandra, Apr 3, 2005 IP
  7. clasione

    clasione Notable Member

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    Bingo - right there!

    If you want all pages indexed don't even use it....

    Why let the robots think you care or know about a robots meta?
     
    clasione, Apr 3, 2005 IP