What does <meta name ="robots" content="nohtmlindex"> mean?

[rvkumarweb]

Hi,

I don't no what is this comment about and how it will affect the search results or index?
<meta name ="robots" content="nohtmlindex">

looking forward to hear from you!

[aakk9999]

The "nohtmlindex" is incorrect and it will be ignored by Google and most other search engines. It should be "noindex" if you do not want the page to be indexed:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

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It seems that just the SharePoint crawler uses/used "nohtmlindex".
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[edited by: aakk9999 at 10:16 am (utc) on Dec 30, 2014]

[TheMadScientist]

What does <meta name ="robots" content="nohtmlindex"> mean?

Bluntly, it means "ignore the directive", because as 4x9's with an ace (aka aakk9999) said, it's incorrect and a search engine does/should ignore an incorrect directive.

[goodroi]

It is as effective as <meta name ="ranking" content="#1"

[lucy24]

:: detour to look up ::

It seems to be a wording used by certain editors [blogs.technet.com] and recognized only by their own robots. If it results in something that major search engines don't understand, you'd have to call it worse than useless because you think you've taken an action but you haven't really done anything.

[Planet13]

Then it is like the negative 12 dollar bill...

[Edge]

It's a SharePoint indexing directive.. SharePoint uses it like a "noindex" No other indexer recognizes it..

[rvkumarweb]

Hi Edge,

Do you thing "nohtmlindex" comment is only for share point?

My understand here is <meta robots> will helps to comment only for search bots not for any other application and sources!

As per @TheMadScientist, @aakk9999 and others are talking about the "noindex" my debate is all about "nohtml".

Am I make my self clear?

[lucy24]

The exact term "nohtmlindex" is specific to one entity-- SharePoint, apparently. The normal form is "noindex". That's what you use if you don't want pages to be indexed.