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Robots meta / noindex

A per-page instruction to keep a page out of search results.

noindex keeps a page out of results, and nofollow tells crawlers not to follow its links. Watch out: if robots.txt blocks a page, crawlers never see its noindex, and a blocked page can still be indexed from links pointing at it.

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

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