Suggest an editImprove this articleRefine the answer for “What are robots meta tags (index, noindex)?”. Your changes go to moderation before they’re published.Approval requiredContentWhat you’re changing🇺🇸EN🇺🇦UAPreviewTitle (EN)Short answer (EN)**Robots meta tags** are HTML instructions for search engines that specify how exactly to index a particular page. **Key point:** this is a targeted way to control a page's visibility in search engines.Shown above the full answer for quick recall.Answer (EN)Image**Robots meta tags** are HTML instructions for search engines that specify how exactly to index a particular page. --- ### Main tags: #### 1. `<meta name="robots" content="index">` Allows **indexing the page**. (The default, if the meta tag is absent.) #### 2. `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">` **Prohibits indexing**. The page will not appear in search results. #### 3. `follow / nofollow` - `follow` allows following the links on the page (even if the page itself is noindex). - `nofollow` prohibits it. --- ### Examples of robots meta tags: - `<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">` Do not index, do not follow links. - `<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">` Index and follow links (the default). --- ### Why use it: - Hide duplicates, carts, login pages; - Avoid giving SEO weight to low-value pages; - Control indexing without robots.txt. This is a targeted way to control a page's visibility in search engines.For the reviewerNote to the moderator (optional)Visible only to the moderator. Helps review go faster.