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Best Practice N°84 - Level 3- Section statisics and referencing

Description

The site root directory or the pages contain instructions for indexation robots.

Objectives

Makes for a better targeted referencing and improved guidance for search tools.

Possible technical solutions:

In order to define directories, files or file-types that are not intended for indexation use the instructions User-agent and Disallow in a unique simple text file called robots.txt placed in the root directory of the site. On this subject read A Standard for Robot Exclusion

Alternatively in order to act at the level of a specific page use the <meta name="robots" content="attribut1,attribut2"> tag in it where:

  • attribut1attribute 1 can have the values index (index this page) or noindex (don’t index this page) ;
  • attribut2 can have the values follow (follow the links in this page) or nofollow (don’t follow the links);

Control methods:

Validator of robots.txt: http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html

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