An HTML tag that controls how search engines index and follow links on a page.
The meta robots tag tells search engines whether to index a page and whether to follow links on it. It’s commonly used to prevent low-value pages from appearing in search (admin pages, internal search results, filter combinations) while still allowing crawlers to reach important pages.
index / noindex: include or exclude from search resultsfollow / nofollow: allow or disallow following linksmax-snippet, max-image-preview: control snippet previews (advanced)Be careful: accidental noindex on key pages is one of the fastest ways to lose organic traffic.
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