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In a series of tweets by Google Webmasters, they have announced their proposal of a draft stating that Robots.txt is well on its way from becoming a de facto standard to an official one.
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The Complete Guide to Robots.txt and Noindex Meta Tag
How do I use Robots.txt and the noindex meta tag?
Quick Answer: To create a Robots.txt file, you can use any text editor (such as Notepad). Make sure to save the file with UTF-8 encoding during the save file dialog. This file must also be named “robots.txt,” and your site can only have one such file. This file must also be located at the root of the website host you’re applying it to. To use a noindex tag for pages that you do not want to be included in search results, add “<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”>” to the <head> section. Or, you can add the noindex tag using a X-Robots-Tag in the HTTP header: “X-Robots-Tag: noindex”.
How Faceted Navigation Affects SEO
Faceted navigation is problematic for almost all e-commerce websites. The number of pages that e-commerce websites have on different versions of a single product poses a threat to the crawler’s efficiency – which could negatively affect your SEO. But what does faceted navigation really mean?
How Robots.txt and Meta Tags Affect Search Engine Crawling
If you are concerned about the privacy of your website and you do not want the search engine crawlers or bots to crawl certain pages of your website, then “Robots.txt” is the one-stop solution that will keep the crawlers away from the ‘No Entry’ zone.