Moving Web Page

[Peter Murray]

--On Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:31 PM -0700 Andrew Mutch 
<amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us> wrote:
> However, I don't have control over the server so that I can set that
> to register a 301 error that would let search engines know that the
> page has moved permanently. Is there a way to do this within the web
> page itself?

You can use a <META> tag in the HTML pages that tells search engines 
not to index the page but that it is okay to follow the links (to your 
new page).  The HTML tag is:

  <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,FOLLOW">

Unfortunately, not all search engines honor the META-robots tag, so it 
won't catch everyone.  You can find more details at:

  <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html>


Peter
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Peter Murray, Computer Services Librarian              W: 860-570-5233
University of Connecticut Law School             Hartford, Connecticut