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meta-robots in auth.php which is included in login.php

If I put

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

in auth.php and include auth.php inside login.php page, the login.php page will not appear on Google or only auth.php won't appear?

Solution

  • Search engines have no insight into your PHP files. The only thing that matters is which HTML gets generated for which URL.

    Every HTML document that has

    1. your meta-robots element
    2. in the head element¹

    conveys that noindex and nofollow should apply for it. But note that this could be overwritten by the HTTP header X-Robots-Tag and/or by additional meta-robots elements in the same document.

    ¹ If the meta-robots element is somewhere else than in the head element, it’s invalid, and it might not work.