Extra “Index” and “Follow” Meta Tags on All Pages

  • Resolved Anonymous User 9948090

    (@anonymized-9948090)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    Hello

    First congratulations for this excellent plugin. It’s very lightweight and works on only those things which are required for SEO.

    I’m planning to move to this plugin but I have one following doubt which I’ll appreciate if you guys clear:

    Other popular plugins automatically add following line on all pages if we have not set those pages to noindex:

    <meta name=”robots” content=”index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1″ />

    Slim SEO plugin adds following line instead:

    <meta name=”robots” content=”max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1″ />

    Now I wonder why other plugins are adding extra “Index” and “Follow” meta tags on all pages when these tags are default for all pages?

    Does adding Index and Follow tags on all pages explicitly improve SEO and required now by search engines?

    If not, then why these plugins are adding them?

    If yes, then why Slim SEO is not adding them? Will adding these tags harm SEO?

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Anh Tran

    (@rilwis)

    Hi,

    Index and follow are default values of robots. Adding them is redundant. Without them doesn’t harm anything at all. That’s why we don’t add them to the site’s HTML.

    Perhaps other plugins just output them from the perspective of coding, not from SEO perspective.

    For example, if they have this code in their plugins:

    $value = isset( $custom_data ) ? $custom_data : ‘index’;
    echo $value;

    The $value is always outputted, even when there’s no data.

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