No index Meta Tag Vs Robots.txt – What’s the Difference? -
Around these two tools in search engine optimization.
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What is a No index Meta Tag? • • •
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It can be placed in the head sections. Looks like:<meta name="robots" content="noindex"> No index meta tag doesn’t affect the crawling of the page; it affects the indexing.
Does No Indexing control Google Bot Crawling? No
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What is Robots.txt? A robots.txt file is a text file where search engine bots are allowed to crawl and which files they are not allowed to crawl and access.
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A Robots.txt file looks like this: “User-agent: * Disallow:” “User-agent: * Allow:”
• The above robots.txt file is allowing search engine bots to access every file on the website.
- Wrapping up! -
Robots.txt file is used to control search engine bot crawling whereas Noindex Meta Robots Tag is used to control the indexing.