Robots

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Fred

Can one of you clever people answer a couple of questions.

1/. If I INCLUDE <meta name="ROBOTS" content="noindex, nofollow"> to all my web pages will the SE Robots be allowed in to index the page. If not could you please show me a line of html that will allow the SE's to check out my pages.

2/. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="calendar.css" title="styles"> This obviously refers to the calendar on the page but can someone tell me how this works - in layman terms please. Am I right in thinking this would be linked to a database?

Fred


<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="Author" content="Ian Smith">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="noindex, nofollow">
<title>Booking Calender</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="calendar.css" title="styles">

</head>
 
J

Jim Buyens

Fred said:
Can one of you clever people answer a couple of questions.

1/. If I INCLUDE <meta name="ROBOTS" content="noindex, nofollow">
to all my web pages will the SE Robots be allowed in to index the page.
Click to expand...

No. This line requests (but cannot demand) that search engines not index the
current page, and not follow links in the curent page.
If not could you please show me a line of html that will allow the SE's to check out
my pages.
Click to expand...

If you *want* your page indexed, omit the <meta name="ROBOTS"... line.
2/. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="calendar.css" title="styles">
This obviously refers to the calendar on the page but can someone tell me how
this works - in layman terms please. Am I right in thinking this would be linked
to a database?
Click to expand...

Actually, no. This line points to a Cascading Style Sheets file that
contains typographical specifications for your Web page. calendar.css is
just a file name, and has nothing to do with calendars per se. It might
contain formatting instructions for some data displayed in calendar format,
but it might equally well not. This is at the discretion of whoever created
the Web page and the css file.

And despite the term *link*, this tag has nothing to do with a database. It
only gives the location of typographical specifications.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
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Thomas A. Rowe

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Can one of you clever people answer a couple of questions.

1/. If I INCLUDE <meta name="ROBOTS" content="noindex, nofollow"> to all
my web pages will the SE Robots be allowed in to index the page. If not
could you please show me a line of html that will allow the SE's to check
out my pages.

The line you show above indicated to a robot (that honors the tag) to Not
index the specific page and to Not follow any links on the page. If you want
the robot to index the page but Not follow the links on the page, use
"index,nofollow"

2/. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="calendar.css"
title="styles"> This obviously refers to the calendar on the page but can
someone tell me how this works - in layman terms please. Am I right in
thinking this would be linked to a database?

Fred


<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="Author" content="Ian Smith">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="noindex, nofollow">
<title>Booking Calender</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="calendar.css" title="styles">

</head>
 

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