: What are the reasons for using the meta tag "noindex, follow"? Besides using the meta tag for hiding, say, the sitemap to prevent your site appearing spammy, are there any other situations for

@Ogunnowo487

Faceted navigation / search filtering allows visitors to narrow their search for specific products. Such navigation features generate crawl paths that are of no real value to a search engine but are useful for humans. By adding meta noindex,follow to these pages it instructs the search engine to crawl into the product pages for indexing but keeps the faceted search crawl paths out of their index. (keeping your site links from being bloated)

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