Set noindex meta tag on a given subpage

nusaiba124 · Post by **nusaiba124** » Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:51 am

Set noindex meta tag on a given subpage
You can also block Google robots from accessing a given subpage using the noindex tag . This is a meta tag that is used to inform search engine robots not to index a given page.

To use it, simply add the following HTML command to the <head> section of your page:

<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”>

If you use popular CMS systems, you don't even have to type switzerland telegram data anything and manually interfere with the code. Using WordPress, for example, you can enable this tag for a specific page with a single click.

Is it worth using the robots.txt file to exclude a page from indexing?
In most articles on how to block Google from accessing your site, you will also find advice on using the robots.txt file . This is a text file placed in the root directory of a website that contains instructions for search engine robots on how to access individual subpages.

You can use it to tell them which pages or sections of your site can be indexed and which ones should be skipped. However, this will only be a suggestion, which some robots may ignore. What's more, if there are any external links to the page, it may still be indexed - even if you specify in your robots.txt file not to do so.

So how do you suggest Google not to index a particular page?

Open robots.txt in your site's root directory and add the following rule: