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Optimize indexability with clear directives
Indexability is a crucial criterion for natural search engine optimization. Proper management of indexing directives ensures that search engines can access and index your pages correctly. Using meta robots tags, HTTP X-Robots-Tag headers, and the robots.txt file appropriately is essential.
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Our tool analyzes meta robots tags, X-Robots-Tag headers, and the robots.txt file to determine if your page adheres to best indexing practices. It provides detailed reports, flags errors, and recommends corrections to improve the indexability of your pages.
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Understanding Indexing Control
Learn how to use X-Robots-Tag directives, robots.txt, and meta robots tags to manage your content’s accessibility to search engines.
X-Robots-Tag
The HTTP header ’X-Robots-Tag’ is highly flexible and allows directives to be applied to non-HTML documents like PDFs or images. For example, to prevent indexing of an image, you might use: X-Robots-Tag: noindex. This tag can also combine multiple directives: X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, for complete control over how search engines handle content.
Robots.txt
The "robots.txt" file, located at the root of the site, provides global instructions to search engine robots. To block access to a specific directory, use: Disallow: /directory/. To allow crawling of another directory, use: Allow: /directory-allowed/. It is also possible to target specific robots with separate rules, for example: User-agent: Googlebot followed by specific directives for Google.
Meta Tag Robots
Meta ’robots’ tags offer precise control at the page level. Examples of directives include: <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> to prevent indexing, or <meta name="robots" content="nofollow"> to avoid following links. Combined directives can be used, such as: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">. These tags ensure that search engines process each page as desired.
Best Practices
Careful and judicious use of these directives is essential for effective management of your site’s visibility. It is important to regularly review and update the directives based on content changes and SEO strategy. Coordination between development and SEO teams is crucial to avoid unexpected indexing blocks.
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