Little known META tags that can be very useful

Just add enclose the entire meta row in < > and add to the HEAD section of your webpage. Also, read about my proposed META tag for social websites.

No Snippet of the page will appear in the Search Results (Googlebot only):

• meta name="googlebot" content="NOSNIPPET"
  

Google will not provide an archive link in Search Results (Googlebot only):

• meta name="googlebot" content="NOARCHIVE"

Don't use the title or description located in the ODP (dmoz):

• meta name="robots" content="NOODP"

Do not use the title located in the Yahoo Directory:

• meta name="robots" content="NOYDIR"

Prevent Search Engines from indexing your page:

• meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX"

Prevent Search Engines from following links on your page:

• meta name="robots" content="NOFOLLOW"

Additional Information:

Robots can be replaced with a specific Search Engine Bot like:

• meta name="googlebot" content="NOFOLLOW"

Meta content values can be combined into a single meta entry like:

• meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"