Digital Hub Lab
Meta Robots Builder
Build a meta robots tag and understand how indexing, link-following and snippet directives affect a page.
Create a robots meta tag from clearly labelled choices. The builder explains potentially serious directives before you add them to a page.
Preparing the interactive tool…
How to use this tool
- Choose whether the page should be indexed.
- Choose whether crawlers should follow its links.
- Add any caching, image or snippet restrictions.
- Copy the generated tag and place it in the page head through your CMS or code.
Understanding the result
Noindex tells compliant search engines to remove a page from results after they recrawl it. Blocking that same page in robots.txt can prevent crawlers from seeing the noindex directive.
Practical guidance
Use restrictive directives only for a clear reason. Confirm important pages remain indexable after changing SEO plugins, templates or staging settings.
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