So you're telling Robots to not follow any links from the homepage, and to not index inner pages and not follow links on inner pages.Googlebot interprets the following robots meta tag values:
- NOINDEX - prevents the page from being included in the index.
- NOFOLLOW - prevents Googlebot from following any links on the page. (Note that this is different from the link-level NOFOLLOW attribute, which prevents Googlebot from following an individual link.)
- NOARCHIVE - prevents a cached copy of this page from being available in the search results.
- NOSNIPPET - prevents a description from appearing below the page in the search results, as well as prevents caching of the page.
- NOODP - blocks the Open Directory Project description of the page from being used in the description that appears below the page in the search results.
- NONE - equivalent to "NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW".
Sounds very strange to me! Why would you not want the content pages indexed too? You'd be missing out on the potential for long-tail traffic to the site by preventing indexing of the inner pages.nice and tidy (as opposed to it listing the site's other pages as well
lula said:I was trying to do the no follow thing because I'd noticed that lots of other sites only seemed to have their home page listed when you Googled them (like designforums appears once) whereas my site had all the pages listed and I thought (maybe wrongly!) that it looked a bit amateur...