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Where do I put the X-robots-tag?
Example uses of the X-Robots-Tag If you want to prevent search engines from showing files you’ve generated with PHP, you could add the following in the head of the header. php file: header(“X-Robots-Tag: noindex”, true); This would not prevent search engines from following the links on those pages.
Which pages should be Noindex?
Pages to set to noindex
- Author archives on a one-author blog. If you are the only one writing for your blog, your author pages are probably 90% the same as your blog homepage.
- Certain (custom) post types.
- Thank you pages.
- Admin and login pages.
- Internal search results.
- Nofollow single links.
What is the value to be set for X-robots-tag header to prevent the crawlers from indexing a page?
Instead of a meta tag, you can also return an X-Robots-Tag header with a value of either noindex or none in your response. Here’s an example of an HTTP response with an X-Robots-Tag instructing crawlers not to index a page: HTTP/1.1 200 OK (…)
Should I index landing pages?
So it is advisable not to index short term events page. Clear Analytics of Your Website: Another reason why you should use “No Follow” is to get clear metrics for each landing page campaign. You can run tests to compare traffic with an indexed page to an un-indexed page if you want.
How to use X-Robots-Tag in an HTTP header?
Using the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header The X-Robots-Tag can be used as an element of the HTTP header response for a given URL. Any directive that can be used in a robots meta tag can also be specified as an X-Robots-Tag. Here’s an example of an HTTP response with an X-Robots-Tag instructing crawlers not to index a page:
What do you need to know about the X-Robots-Tag?
Noarchive: Tells search engines to not show a cached version of a page. Nocache: This is the same as noarchive tag, but specific to the Bingbot/MSNbot. Nosnippet: Instructs search engines to not display text or video snippets. Notranslate: Instructs search engines to not show translations of a page in SERPs.
Where to put robots meta tag in Google search?
The robots meta tag lets you utilize a granular, page-specific approach to controlling how an individual page should be indexed and served to users in Google Search results. Place the robots meta tag in the section of a given page, like this:
Can a meta robots directive be specified as an X-Robots Tag?
“Any directive that can be used in a robots meta tag can also be specified as an X-Robots-Tag.” While you can set robots.txt-related directives in the headers of an HTTP response with both the meta robots tag and X-Robots Tag, there are certain situations where you would want to use the x-robots tag.