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meta robots

Controls indexing and link following for a page. Use it to keep private or duplicate pages out of search results.

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Syntax

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

Example

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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
    <title>Internal draft</title>
  </head>
  <body><p>This page should not appear in search.</p></body>
</html>

Notes

Prefer noindex over robots.txt blocking, because a blocked page cannot be de-indexed.

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