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The
Robots Meta Tag allows HTML
authors to indicate to visiting
robots if a document may
be indexed or used to harvest
more links. No server administator
action is required. There
are only a handful of search
engine robots which read
the robots.txt file. Proper
usage to index a page and
follow all links: <META
NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,
FOLLOW"> Proper
usage to index a page but
not follow all links: <META
NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,
NO FOLLOW"> Proper
usage to exclude a page
from being indexed, but
have the links followed: <META
NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NO
INDEX, FOLLOW"> Proper
usage to exclude a page
from being indexed or links
followed: <META
NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NO
INDEX, NO FOLLOW"> The
robots meta tag is NOT case
sensitive. -------------------------------------------------
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