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Asked: 2026-05-26T09:06:18+00:00

If there is a meta tag in the header section <META NAME=ROBOTS CONTENT=INDEX,FOLLOW> which

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If there is a meta tag in the header section
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW"> which I do not have access to ( cms company that gives me limited functionality) but the site does allow me to add meta tags and I add in <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NONE"> which gets added in the header section after the first one mentioned, which meta tag takes priority?

I don’t want my site indexed but I can’t remove <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">

Clearer example:

<HTML>
  <HEAD>
    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">
    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NONE"> 
    <!-- what will search engine spiders do? -->
  </HEAD>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You could try testing it here: http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html

    I would imagine that different spiders probably handle that situation differently though, so I wouldn’t rely on the results. Just as spiders can completely ignore your meta tags, they are free to interpret them a number of ways depending on how they are written.

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