10 Meta Robot Tags That Everyone Should Know

Very earlier we have said that SEO is the breathe for any website or blog, without which any of them can't survive for long time. And even if they survive then it will be huge loss for them in terms of both time and money.One cannot underestimate the practice of SEO because once you ignored it is going to make you suffer a lot. (Seriously I have suffered great in my initial days :D) .Therefore to any SEO consultant you may seek he will ask you to do following things first.

Step#1 All In One SEO Tips For Blogger
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In this tutorial we are going to learn what are the types of Meta Robot Tags and what is use of it?
To start with you must know what meta tags are?

What Are Meta Robot Tags?

Meta tags are specific web-url or meta-tags which tell web-spiders/ Google-bots whether they should index a page or not. There is no other simple meaning for meta robots than this.

Types of Meta Robot Tags?

1. all

This meta tag tells the web-spiders to index the whole of page and it's content including image and media files too.

2.noindex

Noindex meta tags prevents any page or site from getting indexed by the robots/web-spiders.

3.nofollow

Nofollow means any link from the site will not be displayed in search results.

4.none

This value of meta tag is just opposite of what all meta tag value is. In simple terms you must understand that robots will niether index nor follow the pages set with None meta tag value.

5.noarchive

Noarchive means cached copy of your site will not be shown by search engine.

6.nocache

It is same as noarchive but it is used with MSN/Live

7.noodp

Search results from DMOZ directory will not be shown as a search results by the search engines.

8.noimageindex

It blocks all the images in your page and prevents them from getting indexed.

9.nosnippet

Search engine doesn't show snippets for this page in search results and prevent the page from being cached.

10.noydir

Blocks the robots from yahoo to prevent it from using the description of your page in it's yahoo!directory

Final Words

Everyday millions of sites and blogs are registered and to make your own identity among this mass crowd you must take care of every small-small things. Well small in the sense means not really small. You may also get it in your mind that, though SEO is short to pronounce and write, but actually it has lot of power. It's like atom bomb. If not take care of it then it can also blast off your site forever, and if it is used well then it can bring good to you. So it's all up to you how you much are you serious about the SEO of your site/blog.