What is the difference between "index, follow" or "follow"

html seo noindex
Richard Frey Reyes picture Richard Frey Reyes · Jul 11, 2018 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

what is the differences the lists below:

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

<meta name="robots" content="follow">

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">

<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow">

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

Answer

Mahesh Sharma picture Mahesh Sharma · Jul 15, 2018

First of all, do you know about Meta Robots Tags? Meta Robots Tags is to tell the spider or crawler which page to crawl or index or not.

Follow means : page will be crawled.
No Follow means : page will not be crawled.
Index means : your page show in search Results.
No Index means : your page does not show in search Results. 

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

This tag tells the web crawler all pages will be indexed and to crawl them.

<meta name="robots" content="follow">

This tag is used to tell the web crawler all pages will be crawled and indexed.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">

This tag is used to tell the crawler to follow but not index the page in your database.

<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow">

To tell the web crawler page not crawl but index them.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

To tells the web crawler to neither index nor crawl.

Related questions

"rel=nofollow noopener" - Possible to have both at the same time?

I've got a pdf that I'd like to protect and don't want search engines to index it. Currently, my link is as follows: <a href="https://example.com/mypdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View PDF</a&…

Read More
What is the purpose of the "role" attribute in HTML?

I keep seeing role attributes in some people's work. I use it too, but I'm not sure about its effect. For example: <header id="header" role="banner"> Header stuff in here </header> Or: <section id="…

Read More
How do search engines deal with AngularJS applications?

I see two issues with AngularJS application regarding search engines and SEO: 1) What happens with custom tags? Do search engines ignore the whole content within those tags? i.e. suppose I have <custom> <h1>Hey, this …

Read More