MetaRobots by SEO-Sign
The easiest way to manage meta robots tag.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 1
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 7 Apr 2015
- Added
- Apr 2015
- Requires WP
- 3.0.1
- Tested up to
- WP 4.1.42
- Downloads
- 5,100
Our analysis
AI-assistedMetaRobots is a WordPress plugin that allows you to manage meta robots directives and the robots.txt file directly from your control panel. It interprets commands from a specified metarobots.txt file and generates the corresponding meta tags for your site.
This plugin is suitable for users who want to control how search engines interact with their content, including options to block crawling, manage indexing, and prevent snippets or translations of their pages.
Best for: This plugin is best for website owners looking to manage their site's indexing and crawling settings.
What it does well
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Allows management of robots directives from the control panel
- ✓Supports various commands for controlling search engine behaviour
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on features and functionality
- •Last updated in April 2015, may not be compatible with newer WordPress versions
Verdict
MetaRobots provides basic functionality for controlling search engine access to your site, but its age and limited updates may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
Artem Pilipets's own description of MetaRobots by SEO-Sign, lightly tidied.
Manage prohibitions meta robots and robots.txt file from the control panel using the commands in the format of robots.txt
PHP script parses commands from the metarobots.txt file and creates relevant tags.
Currently script supports following commands:
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Disallow:
name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow”
Blocks content from crawling for the search engine. -
Index:
name=”robots” content=”index, nofollow”
Allows crawling, forbids follow the links. -
Follow:
name=”robots” content=”noindex, follow”
Forbids crawling, allows forbids follow the links. -
Noarchiv:
name=”robots” content=”noarchive”
Do not show a link to the cached copy. -
Nosnippet:
name=”robots” content=”nosnippet”
Do not create a snippet. -
Noodp:
name=”robots” content=”noodp”
Do not use the description from DMOZ for snippet. -
Notranslate:
name=”robots” content=”notranslate”
Do not offer page translation. -
Noimageindex:
name=”robots” content=”noimageindex”
Do not crawl the image on the page.