Which is better — Meta Robot tags or robots.txt?

[juliaalan]

Which is better — Meta Robot tags or robots.txt?


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[Electrum]

Hello Friends,

Using a meta robots tag also ensures that your link equity is not being lost, with the use of the 'follow' command. Robots.txt files are best for disallowing a whole section of a site, such as a category whereas a meta tag is more efficient at disallowing single files and pages.

[soleseriouss]

You need to understand the difference between both!

[Cyril30]

Robots. txt files are best for disallowing a whole section of a site, such as a category whereas a meta tag is more efficient at disallowing single files and pages. You could choose to use both a meta robots tag and a robots.