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Last week, I covered a new command for the meta robots tag — one to prevent search engines from using Yahoo titles and descriptions. In doing that, a number of questions came up about the meta robots tag syntax itself. Google Webmaster Central has now posted “Using the robots meta tag,” providing some clarity from Google. In addition, both Yahoo and Microsoft have also sent me information on using the tag. I’ll run through what everyone says below, complete with charts for easy at-a-glance comparisons.

The meta robots tag was an open standard created over a decade ago and designed initially to allow page authors to prevent page indexing. Over the years, various search engines have added additional support to the tag.

Let me start off by saying that if you DO want your pages in search engines, then DO NOT use the tag. By default, the major search engines will index any page they find. Yes, there is a form of the meta robots tag you can use to explicitly tell search engines to index your pages. It looks like this:

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