At 05:39 PM 7/23/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Luana wrote:
>
>>All good suggestions. Have you considered JavaScript to load the proper
>page in its frameset?
>
>I'm going to be finished with this wretched site come hell or high water
>tomorrow, so no time to mess around with finding a Javascript and making it
>work.
>>
>>Still a sure fire way to avoid the problem is to submit a search
>>engine-friendly page and insert a robots no follow meta tag.
>
>What exactly does the robots no follow meta tag do? Is that the same that
>you use when you want search engines *not* index a page?
I think that's right, Suz. Here's more info from
http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/
That makes reference to this report
http://www.w3.org/Search/9605-Indexing-Workshop/ReportOutcomes/Spidering.txt
<snip>
ROBOTS meta-tag
<META NAME="ROBOTS"
CONTENT="ALL | NONE | NOINDEX | NOFOLLOW">
default = empty = "ALL"
"NONE" = "NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"
The filler is a comma separated list of terms:
ALL, NONE, INDEX, NOINDEX, FOLLOW, NOFOLLOW.
Discussion: This tag is meant to provide users who cannot control
the robots.txt file at their sites. It provides a last chance to
keep their content out of search services. It was decided not to
add syntax to allow robot specific permissions within the meta-tag.
INDEX means that robots are welcome to include this page in
search services.
FOLLOW means that robots are welcome to follow links from this
page to find other pages.
So a value of "NOINDEX" allows the subsidiary links to be explored,
even though the page is not indexed. A value of "NOFOLLOW" allows the
page to be indexed, but no links from the page are explored (this may
be useful if the page is a free entry point into pay-per-view content,
for example. A value of "NONE" tells the robot to ignore the page.
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