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

[laragiles]

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

[Electrum]

Hello Friends,

This wound up being a bit of a trick question because both are important for your site’s SEO.

Since meta robots tags and SEO robots.txt files aren’t truly interchangeable, you’ll need to use both to provide the correct parameters for site crawlers. As Search Engine Journal puts it, “Robots.txt files instruct crawlers about the entire site. While meta robots tags get into the nitty-gritty of a specific page [on a website].”

For example, if you want to deindex one of your web pages from Google’s SERPs, it’s better to use a “Noindex” meta robots tag rather than a robots.txt directive. If you’re looking to block entire sections of your website from showing up on SERPs, using a disallow robots.txt file is the better choice.

[elena980]

This injury up being somewhat of a misleading question in light of the fact that both are significant for your site's SEO.

Since meta robots labels and SEO robots.txt records aren't genuinely tradable, you'll have to involve both to give the right boundaries to site crawlers. As Search Engine Journal puts it, "Robots.txt records educate crawlers about the whole site. While meta robots labels get into the low down of a particular page [on a website]."

For instance, on the off chance that you need to deindex one of your pages from Google's SERPs, it's smarter to utilize a "Noindex" meta robots tag rather than a robots.txt mandate. Assuming that you're hoping to obstruct whole areas of your site from appearing on SERPs, utilizing a prohibit robots.txt document is the better decision.

[chris26]

Meta tags also are used for the description of your site in search results. Robot text file is for indexing mostly. Meta tags have more uses.