On Jun 4, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Vladimir V. Medeiko wrote:
I have checked Special:Allpages page, and discovered the followin tag:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
And this may negatively impact rank of Wikipedia in different search engines. Could anyone explain me why this tag is put there? Is it possible to remove it?
It's there because it's silly for Google to index Special:Allpages, since it's just a list of pages. It's useful for Google to follow the links though, to index the articles it points to (which is all of them).
Peter
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