--- title: "What is the syntax of the Robots Meta tag?" description: "What is the syntax of the Robots Meta tag?" author: "Shrikant Mishra" published: 2020-12-07 updated: 2020-12-07 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156289/what-is-the-syntax-of-the-robots-meta-tag category: "web development" tags: ["seo"] reading_time: 1 minute --- # What is the syntax of the Robots Meta tag? What is the syntax of the [Robots](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/331636/can-robots-replace-humans-completely-in-the-workplaces-why) [Meta](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/63662/a-comprehensive-guide-to-a-phd-thesis-meta-analysis-know-why-and-how) tag? ## Replies ### Reply by Anshu Dwivedi .One who is using word press don't aware of these types of tags but. In HTML made these types of tags are common. Robots meta tag is used to tell Google which pages it wants to hide from Google and which it wants that google crawl. The meta robots tag is a tag that tells search engines what to follow and what not to follow. It is a piece of code in the section of your webpage. It’s a simple code that gives you the power to decide about what pages you want to hide from search engine crawlers and what pages you want them to index and look at. --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156289/what-is-the-syntax-of-the-robots-meta-tag Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.