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Conflicting Robots Meta Directive

What are conflicting Robots meta directives, why are they bad and how to fix them.

Marlon Dean Neuhuber avatar
Written by Marlon Dean Neuhuber
Updated over 2 years ago

What is the issue?

This conflict occurs when information in the robots meta directive differs from the robots.txt file.

Why is it bad?

Conflicting information means that search engines don't understand how to interpret these pages, potentially preventing your page from being indexed.

How to fix

Check why the information in the robots meta directive and robots.txt file are different and make sure that they are identical.

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