X-Robots-Tag

X-Robots-Tag
noun

Definition:
An HTTP header directive that provides indexing instructions to search engines for non-HTML files (e.g., PDFs, images). It functions similarly to the meta robots tag but operates at the server level.

Usage:
“They used an X-Robots-Tag header to prevent a PDF file from being indexed.”

Compare:
meta robots tag, robots.txt

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