Simulate how meta robots directives affect indexing. Test noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, max-snippet, and max-image-preview combinations.
Meta Robots Tag Simulator interprets a set of meta robots directives and separates their effects on indexing, following links, text snippets, and image previews. It is useful for checking combinations such as noindex with nofollow, or max-snippet with max-image-preview. The common mistake is treating nofollow as if it prevents indexing. It does not: noindex is the directive that requests exclusion from search results, while nofollow addresses whether supported crawlers should follow links found on the page.
Enter the robots directives that would appear in the content attribute of a robots meta element. The simulator identifies supported tokens such as noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, max-snippet, and max-image-preview, then reports the outcome associated with each search behavior. Directive names are normally comma-separated, although whitespace may also appear around individual values.
The result treats indexing, link following, text snippets, and image previews as separate controls. A restrictive directive in one area does not automatically impose the same restriction elsewhere. When snippet directives overlap, the stricter instruction governs the simulated preview outcome. For example, nosnippet is more restrictive than a positive max-snippet value because it requests that no text snippet be shown.
No. nofollow requests that supported crawlers not follow links discovered on the page. It does not request removal of the page itself from search results. Use noindex for that indexing instruction. Even then, the crawler must be able to retrieve the page and read the directive before it can act on it.
No. These directives set upper bounds on eligible preview content. max-snippet limits the permitted text snippet length, while max-image-preview selects the permitted image preview category. A search engine can still show a shorter preview, a different result format, or no preview. nosnippet requests no text snippet and is stricter than a positive max-snippet value.
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