Meta tags used to be an important variable for high search engine rankings. Then the practice was abused by shady operators who used keyword spamming, invisible text, or irrelevant copy in their tags, ...

Google’s Martin Splitt answered a question about how Googlebot responds to a pre-render meta tag that has the value of 404 page not found. It’s a good question because this is the kind of meta tag, a ...

It has been a while since I covered the keyword meta tag and for some reason the topic has come up recently, so I decided to cover it again. In short, Google Search still does not use the keyword meta ...

Google Search Advocate John Mueller explains whether the use of meta robots tags can affect webpage rankings in search results. This topic is addressed in the latest installment of the Ask Googlebot ...

With Google removing the cache operator from its search service, Google has stopped supporting the noarchive directive in Google Search. The directive, the noarchive meta tag, would tell Google not to ...