<META name robots>

Description:

Generally you should not need to worry about which pages within your site are indexed by search engines. Most search engines will attempt to spider every page you have on your site.

Occasionally there are valid reasons why you do not want this to occur. Perhaps you have a slideshow presentation which needs to be viewed from start to finish. It would be awkward for someone to be dumped in the middle of the presentation.

In this case, you can use the ROBOTS Metatag to control exactly which pages are indexed by search engines.

Unfortunately, this tag is not widely recognized as of yet. Lycos does use the tag, and the Atomz site-specific search engine also honors the tag.

If you need to ensure precise control over what is and is not indexed on your site, use the more widely recognized robots.txt file.

Attributes:

<meta name="Robots" content="text">

text is one of the following four combinations.

all	Same as index,follow.
index,follow	The default, meaning index the page and follow all links from the page.
noindex, follow	don't index the page but do follow all links from the page.
index,nofollow	index the page, but do not proceed to the links from the page.
noindex,nofollow	do not index the page and do not proceed to links from the page.
none	same as noindex,nofollow.
noimageindex	Altavista only. Prevents the images on the page from being indexed, but the text on the page can still be indexed. May be included index, noindex, follow and nofollow.

Examples:

<meta name="ROBOTS" content="noindex,nofollow">

Don't index the current page, and do not continue following links from the page.