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Two META Robots tags on a page - which will win?
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Hi,
Does anybody know which meta-robots tag will "win" if there is more than one on a page?
The situation:
our CMS is not very flexible and so we have segments of META-Tags on the page that originate from templates.
Now any author can add any meta-tag from within his article-editor.
The logic delivering the pages does not care if there might be more than one meta-robots tag present (one from template, one from within the article).Now we could end up with something like this:
Which one will be regarded by google & co?
First?
Last?
None?Thanks a lot,
Jan -
I can confirm chris is correct, our crappy CMS does the same thing (for certain pages), and the pages are not indexed
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Why not try to avoid the problem altogheter? I assume the below line is site-wide:
If you remove the index, follow meta tag, your pages will still be indexed and followed. Then allow your authors to decide on a post-by-post basis if they want to noindex or nofollow the page.
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The two get aggregated or the most restrictive gets used so in this case, you'd get
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-robots-meta-tag.html
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