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<p>[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 2505046, member: 15199"]Good robots will honor a no trespass tag in the code. A malicious robot won't</p><p><br /></p><p>The "#" below are added by me.</p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>"You can use a special HTML <META> tag to tell robots not to index the content of a page, and/or not scan it for links to follow.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example:</p><p><br /></p><p>#<html></p><p>#<head></p><p>#<title>...</title></p><p><b>#<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"></b></p><p>#</head></p><p><br /></p><p>There are two important considerations when using the robots <META> tag:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>robots can ignore your <META> tag. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.</li> <li>the NOFOLLOW directive only applies to links on this page. It's entirely likely that a robot might find the same links on some other page without a NOFOLLOW (perhaps on some other site), and so still arrives at your undesired page."<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html</a><br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 2505046, member: 15199"]Good robots will honor a no trespass tag in the code. A malicious robot won't The "#" below are added by me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "You can use a special HTML <META> tag to tell robots not to index the content of a page, and/or not scan it for links to follow. For example: #<html> #<head> #<title>...</title> [B]#<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">[/B] #</head> There are two important considerations when using the robots <META> tag: [LIST] [*]robots can ignore your <META> tag. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention. [*]the NOFOLLOW directive only applies to links on this page. It's entirely likely that a robot might find the same links on some other page without a NOFOLLOW (perhaps on some other site), and so still arrives at your undesired page." [url]http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html[/url] [/LIST][/QUOTE]
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