Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'noarchive'

A WebmasterWorld thread has a senior webmaster claiming that in some cases, Microsoft Bing is ignoring the <meta name="robots" content="noarchive"> tag. The noarchive tag basically tells the search engine not to display a "cache" result in the search listings. This...

Posted on August 4, 2009 8:50 AM

Does Alexa have a separate set of standards that allow them to ignore metatags that other search engines are supposed to ignore? Well, perhaps Alexa thinks it does, because the statistics package site is ignoring the 'noarchive' tag and one...

Posted on November 3, 2008 9:43 AM

Before beginning, I know a few of you will be upset I wrote this at all. But I want to show you the history here. A WebmasterWorld thread asks what is the story with the noarchive META tag and the...

Posted on May 14, 2008 7:39 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks if there's any purpose to the 'noarchive' metatag in Google. Why use it? A few reasons are mentioned: Pages that are constantly updated should not be showing the wrong information in the cache so as not...

Posted on September 19, 2007 9:02 AM