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abhaykumar · 03-15-2018, 10:18 PM

Hlo Friends,
Which is better — Meta Robot tags or robots.txt?

buyinstagram · 03-15-2018, 10:22 PM

Is it better to use meta tags* or the robots.txt file for informing spiders/crawlers to include or exclude a page?

Are there any issues in using both the meta tags and the robots.txt?

evejones · 03-15-2018, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by abhaykumar

Hlo Friends,
Which is better — Meta Robot tags or robots.txt?

You can also use both instead of wasting time in finding better of the two

TheDogLine · 03-15-2018, 10:34 PM

Robots.txt files are best for disallowing a whole section of a site, such as a category whereas a meta tag is more efficient at disallowing single files and pages. You could choose to use both a meta robots tag and a robots.txt file as neither has authority over the other, but “noindex” always has authority over “index” requests.

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