{"id":5851,"date":"2021-07-22T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T08:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppcseo.com\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2021-08-03T16:40:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T13:40:49","slug":"google-bolshe-ne-podderzhivaet-direktivu-follow-v-metatege-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ppcseo.com\/en\/news\/google-bolshe-ne-podderzhivaet-direktivu-follow-v-metatege-robots","title":{"rendered":"Google no longer supports follow directive in robots meta tag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The source \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengines.guru\/ru\/news\/2052145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">searchengines.guru<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SEO consultant Cyrus Shepard pointed out that \u201cfollow\u201d is missing from the list of effective indexing and content display directives in the \u201cSpecifications for the robots meta tag, the data-nosnippet attribute, and the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"display:flex; align-items:center;justify-content: center;\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TIL: Google&#8217;s docs don&#8217;t support the robots &#8220;follow&#8221; directive:<br><br>&lt;meta name=&#8221;robots&#8221; content=&#8221;noindex, follow&#8221; \/&gt;<br><br>Which nearly all SEO articles lists as a valid practice. Might&#8217;ve missed something, but does Google ignore follow directives now? cc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@johnmu<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5O12E4Fn7C\">https:\/\/t.co\/5O12E4Fn7C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JvaNASoI4P\">pic.twitter.com\/JvaNASoI4P<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Cyrus (@CyrusShepard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CyrusShepard\/status\/1417578648043880448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He wrote about it on Twitter and noted in a post by Google employee John Mueller. He confirmed that Google <strong>no longer supports <\/strong>the follow <strong>directive<\/strong> in the robots.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The source \u2013 searchengines.guru SEO consultant Cyrus Shepard pointed out that \u201cfollow\u201d is missing from the list of effective indexing and content display directives in the \u201cSpecifications for the robots meta tag, the data-nosnippet attribute, and the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header\u201d. 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