robots meta noindex tag in body (but not head); will it be ignored?

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robots meta noindex tag in body (but not head); will it be ignored?

irldonalb

5:23 pm on Mar 9, 2009 (gmt 0)

Hi,

I have the ability to drop a noindex tag in the body but not the header.

Do you think Google and the other engines would ignore it.

Thanks
Donal

Robert Charlton

6:27 pm on Mar 9, 2009 (gmt 0)

Sounds like you have a CMS system that's not too SEO friendly. There's a related question, not the same as yours, but involving similar considerations, in this current discussion...

Does Google count Titles that are not inside <head>?
[webmasterworld.com...]

The references in that thread suggest that you might want to do some w3.org research for the robots meta tag as well.

g1smd

8:59 pm on Mar 9, 2009 (gmt 0)

Redesign the CMS. There's no excuse for such sub-standard products this many years after the web started.