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Waitingforanswer

2005-09-02, 7:18 pm

I found a Meta Tag tutorial in the Internet. Can someone please explain in
layman terms each of the 4 Robot options below and also what is the implication
(please in layman terms) of the Resource Document META NAME="RESOURCE-TYPE"
CONTENT="document. What should the "document" value be. Please see below.
Thanks in advance.

Choose ONLY ONE of the four Robot METAs below that apply to the page you place
it on.

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW">
Function: Robot indexes the page AND follow all links (Default state if no
robots meta is specified)

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
Function: Robot does not index the page nor follow links (Good for a links
page, shopping cart, etc.)

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, NOFOLLOW">
Function: Robot indexes the page but does NOT follow links

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW">
Function: Robot does NOT index the page but follows all links (Good for a
transition page)

<META NAME="RESOURCE-TYPE" CONTENT="document">
This tells the robot that the page is an html document and should be walked.

Kenneth W. Binney

2005-09-02, 7:20 pm

The tutorial is pretty much in layman's terms.
The word "INDEX" is a verb which tells the dearch engine that you want the
page to be examined and placed in their database.
What other words do you need help with?
The value of the bottom tag is already in place. Just copy as is.

"Waitingforanswer" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I found a Meta Tag tutorial in the Internet. Can someone please explain in
> layman terms each of the 4 Robot options below and also what is the
> implication
> (please in layman terms) of the Resource Document META
> NAME="RESOURCE-TYPE"
> CONTENT="document. What should the "document" value be. Please see
> below.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Choose ONLY ONE of the four Robot METAs below that apply to the page you
> place
> it on.
>
> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW">
> Function: Robot indexes the page AND follow all links (Default state if no
> robots meta is specified)
>
> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
> Function: Robot does not index the page nor follow links (Good for a links
> page, shopping cart, etc.)
>
> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, NOFOLLOW">
> Function: Robot indexes the page but does NOT follow links
>
> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW">
> Function: Robot does NOT index the page but follows all links (Good for a
> transition page)
>
>
>
> <META NAME="RESOURCE-TYPE" CONTENT="document">
> This tells the robot that the page is an html document and should be
> walked.
>
>