Reply To: Canonical & robots meta tag

[Beverleyh]

1. No – you only need them when you have duplicate content, to tell search engines which is the dominant/preferred page.

2. It depends if the page it is on contains content that mainly appears on the home page, otherwise no.

More info: moz.com/learn/5eo/canonicalization

Robots.txt: According to moz.com, noindex meta tags are preferred – moz.com/learn/5eo/robotstxt

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