=== Plugin Name === Contributors: joostdevalk Donate link: http://yoast.com/donate/ Tags: meta,search engines,seo Requires at least: 2.2 Tested up to: 2.5.1 stable tag: 3.0.3 This plugin makes it easy to add the appropriate meta robots tags to your pages, disable unused archives, nofollow unnecessary links as well as do some other SEO related actions. == Description == There's no easy way to add meta robots tags to WordPress pages, unless of course, when you install this plugin. This plugin makes it possible (and very easy) to: * Prevent indexing of your search result pages, while still allowing the search engines to follow the links on them, by adding noindex,follow robots meta tags. * Disallow indexing of subpages to your homepage, category pages, author pages and tag pages, to prevent duplicate content. * Prevent indexing of your login, register and admin pages by adding noindex robots meta tags. * Add noodp an noydir meta robots tags, allowing you to opt out of DMOZ and Yahoo! Directory descriptions. * Prevent Yahoo! and Google from indexing your feeds by adding a meta tag to their head-section. * Prevent indexing of just your comment feeds. * Disable author and date-based archives. * Nofollow category listings on single pages and posts to prevent PageRank leakage. * Nofollow your login, register and admin links, because they really don't need PageRank. * Enforce a trailing slash on archives. * Edit your .htaccess and your robots.txt from within WordPress. * Assign robots meta tags to individual posts & pages. * Verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! Site Explorer. * Add noarchive tags to your blog (Thanks to [Henryk Gerlach](http://blog.littleimpact.de/index.php/2008/07/03/noarchive-tag-for-robots-meta/)). More info: * [Robots Meta plugin](http://yoast.com/wordpress/meta-robots-wordpress-plugin/). * Read more about [WordPress SEO](http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/) so you can get the most out of this plugin. * Check out the other [Wordpress plugins](http://yoast.com/wordpress/) by the same author. == Screenshots == 1. Screenshot of the configuration panel for this plugin. 2. Screenshot of the right column block this plugin adds to the edit post and edit page admin areas. == More info == * For more info, version history, etc. check out the page on my site about the [Robots Meta plugin](http://yoast.com/wordpress/meta-robots-wordpress-plugin/). * To check out the other WordPress plugins I wrote, check out my [WordPress plugins](http://yoast.com/wordpress/) page. * For updates about this plugin and other plugins I created read my [SEO blog](http://yoast.com/) == Installation == Installation is easy: * Download and unzip the plugin. * Copy the `robots-meta` folder to the plugins directory of your blog. * Enable the plugin in your admin panel. * An options panel will appear under Plugins. * Choose the settings you want.