Glossary
What Is a Meta Robots Tag?
A meta robots tag is an HTML element placed in a page's head section that tells search engines whether to index that specific page and whether to follow its links.
Unlike robots.txt, a meta robots tag operates at the individual page level and requires the page to be crawled first for the directive to be seen and obeyed.
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