Googlebot Robots META Tag - Metadata Elements
Metadata Elements
The Robots META Tag for Googlebot is meant to provide users who cannot upload or control the /robots.txt file at their websites, with a last chance to keep their content out of Google's indexes and services.
The "robots" tag is obeyed by many different web robots. If you'd like to specify indexing restrictions just for googlebot, you may use "googlebot" in place of "robots".
<meta name="googlebot" content="robots-terms">
Googlebot obeys the noindex, nofollow, and noarchive Robots META Tag. If you place the tag in the head of your HTML/XHTML document, you can cause Google to not index, not follow, and/or not archive particular documents on your site.
The content="robots-terms" is a comma separated list used in the Robots META Tag for Google that may contain one or more of the following keywords without regard to case: noindex, nofollow and/or noarchive.
noindex
Document will not be indexed by Googlebot.
nofollow
Internal and external links in the document will not be followed by Googlebot.
noarchive
Google will not archive a copy of the document (Google's Cached Page).
nosnippet
Google will not display snippets and will not archive a copy of the document (Google's Cached Page). A snippet is a text excerpt from the returned result page that has all query terms bolded. Google Remove Snippets
If this Robots META Tag is missing, or if there is no content, or the robot terms are not specified, then the robot terms will be assumed to be "index, follow" (e.g. "all") which is the default indexing behavior for most major search engine spiders.
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