What are Meta Directives?

Meta directives help search engines find the valuable content on your site and they’re part of the the Robots Exclusion Protocol(REP). These directives are kind of like robot.txt files. Here’s some more information about them.

Meta robots tags are related to crawling and indexing and disallow certain spiders from crawling the pages. They work to give suggestions to search engines. There are three different types of parameters which include link directives, indexation directives and serving&display directives.

For example there are parameters that give directions to index the page or not(index or noindex). Some other parameters include follow and nofollow, none, noimageindex, noarchive and nosnippet. For more information about Robots Meta Tags, check out this resource from Moz. Usually the names are pretty self-explanatory as to what they are suggesting to the bot crawling the page

This is a pretty complicated concept and I’m still learning more about it myself. It’s technical and it has to do with coding. If you want to learn more about meta directives, reach out to bayrockdigitalmarketing@gmail.com to have a discussion to learn more about technical SEO concepts.