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Re: Is this meta tag real?

__/ [Big Bill] on Friday 17 February 2006 14:24 \__

> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:58:25 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>__/ [Big Bill] on Friday 17 February 2006 09:41 \__
>>
>>> <meta name="robots" content="follow,noimageindex,nomediaindex">
>>> 
>>> It's a new one on me. It looks like wishful thinking.
>>> 
>>> BB
>>
>>It seems to be something ancient, which dates back to Altavista.
>>
>>http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/1260-1-15.htm
>>
>>I haven't heard about these tags until you mentioned them. All the ones I
>>know reside in a page that I use as a reference:
>>
>>http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/metatags.html
> 
> Ta. I don't think they actually do anything.
> 
> BB

The way to avoid indexing of media is to centralise it under sensible,
aptly-names directories, e.g.

/images

and

/videos

Then, in robots.txt

User_agent: *
Disallow: /images
Disallow: /videos



Best wishes,

Roy

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