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Preventing Search Engine Indexing

If you're looking for a way to prevent Search Engines from indexing certain web pages within your web site, this HTML tip is for you.

Meta tags are used to give detailed instructions in regard to a web page to the Search Engines and browsers.

Many times, you may have a web page that you don't want the Search Engines to index, such as download pages or private membership sites. To help with this problem, add one of the following META tag codes between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of your HTML.

The following META tag tells the Search Engine robots not to index this page and not to follow any links within the page:

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


The following META tag tells the Search Engine robots not to index this page, but follow any links within the page:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,FOLLOW">







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