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Are robots meta tags necessary?

by HarisKhan
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If we add robots.txt to our site then do we need to add robots header tags or not? I mean to say that if a site has robots.txt file uploaded and live for example: example.com/robots.txt This robots.txt file has all instructions to Search Engine.

Do we need to put robot meta tags also?
#meta #robots #tags
  • Profile picture of the author Sclark
    Basically, there`s no need. Robots.txt will commonly be enough in case you need to specify some basic instructions for the bots and restrict some of your pages/categories from indexing. You can use robots meta tag on a page additionally, in case you require individual approach to controlling how a specific page should be indexed and shown to users.

    In case you need to set some instruction for non-html pages - you may then use x-robots tag, as it allows restricting the indexation of other kinds of files like images, flash, videos, etc.
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