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Which is better Robots.txt or Meta Robots Tag?‎

What are meta tags and why it is used?‎

What are meta tags used for?‎

 

Answer added by  Benita Johnson, MARKETING CONSULTANT, DIGITAL
8 years ago

Both are supported by all crawlers which respect webmasters wishes. Not all do, but against them neither technique is sufficient. You can use robots.txt rules for genera ... See More

 

Answer added by  Davis Parker, DIGITAL PROJECT MANAGER, Employers name
8 years ago

On the most basic level, neither the meta robots tag or the Robots.txt has authority over the other – but rather the “noindex” request has authority over the “index” requ ... See More

 

Answer added by  Beth McClure
8 years ago

Meta Robots tag is much better as it helps in forcing the search engine crawlers not to index and display the hidden pages in your server.

 

Answer added by  Rini Raju, Software Engineer, Persistent Systems Limited
9 years ago

Meta tags are used to provide information about the html document .  for eg .  for search engine you can provide some keywords in meta tag.    Or it can be used to put th ... See More

 

Answer added by  Zareen shaikh, SAP TRAINER, R Solutions PVT LTD
9 years ago

Metadata is data (information) about data. The tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable. M ... See More

 

Answer added by  Winona James, Marketing Manager, ABC Media Marketing Partners
7 years ago

Personally I think the meta tag is even more useful than the robots.txt file.   The robots.txt file is intended to PREVENT bots from spidering files in the first place.   ... See More

 

Answer added by  Suvik Krishnan, Marketing Analyst, AFT Marketing House, Inc
7 years ago

There is no real "MAJOR" difference between the files. They both do the same work however the META tag is not as reliable as the .txt This is because I think (c ... See More