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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