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Topic: Correct Html code help

Posted By: Paul_T
Subject: Correct Html code help
Date Posted: 27 March 2014 at 2:06pm

Hi, just searched online to find noarchive code for googlebots.

Is it:

<meta name="googlebot" content="noarchive">

Or:

<meta name="googlebot" content="noarchive" />

Or does it not matter?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 March 2014 at 2:22pm

No archive, is this like noindex?

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Posted By: Paul_T
Date Posted: 27 March 2014 at 2:26pm

Yeah similar it stops google putting pages in Cache, but does it end with > or /> because I have seen different versions and want to know if it matters?

Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 27 March 2014 at 3:01pm

Whether it ends in a / or not depends on your version of HTML.

/ is only used if it is XHTML. If it's HTML5 then you wouldn't include the /

What is your DOCTYPE?

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Posted By: Paul_T
Date Posted: 27 March 2014 at 3:09pm

Hi Scotty, just keeped looking and found / is for xhtml, i'm using webwiz forum 10.12 so I used html version. Thanks for help.

Posted By: adamcruz
Date Posted: 03 December 2014 at 5:19am

It depends on the version of HTML , Both are correct whether it ends with " / " or without slash. one is used in XHTML and another we can use in HTML or HTML 5.

Posted By: MEOWPLATES
Date Posted: 08 May 2015 at 6:45pm

If you're ever in doubt just validate your HTML, it'll pick up the DOCTYPE and tell you if you need it or not! :) Same for img tags!

https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/