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Robots.txt
Whats the difference between using:

Robots.txt file - Disallow /whatever

or

meta name="robots content="noindex,nofollow" ?

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The biggest diference is with robots.txt you have a central control over the robots but in the other hand with

meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"

tag in that specific page, only that page will be excluded.

Then again if you have a robots file saying

Disallow /Nothing_specified_here/ even that tag written page will be indexed
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The main difference is:

1. Files specified in the robots.txt file should never be crawled (visited by the spider).

2. Files containing the "NOINDEX" tag can be crawled by the spider, but shouldn't be indexed.
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The biggest diference is with robots.txt you have a central control over the robots but in the other hand with

meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"

tag in that specific page, only that page will be excluded.

Then again if you have a robots file saying

Disallow /Nothing_specified_here/ even that tag written page will be indexed


thanks simple - im going to have to make a change.......

good thing i asked
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