Meta robots or robot.txt file?

[eLab_London]

Hi Mozzers!

For parametric URL's would you recommend meta robot or robot.txt file?
For example: http://www.exmaple.com//category/product/cat no./quickView I want to stop indexing /quickView URLs.

And what's the real difference between the two?

Thanks again!

Kay

[Andy.Drinkwater]

No problem at all

-Andy

[eLab_London]

Thanks Andy!!!

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Kay,

If you want to disallow access to a page, then add the following to the Robots.txt file:

Disallow: /quickView

Then test this in Webmaster Tools.

If you want to tell Google not to index a page, then you need to do this at the page level using Meta Robots. However, don't do both (at least not at the same time). If you disallow access to a set of pages via Robots.txt and then at a later stage you Meta Noindex, Google won't see this because of the Disallow in the Robots.txt.

It really depends what you are trying to achieve, but it sounds like the Meta Robots is the way to go for you.

-Edit... here is an interesting read for you.

-Andy

[WeAreDigital_BE]

Hi There,

I'm sure this interesting article will help you!

Sander