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Meta tags

googlebot-news

Applies Google robots rules to news results. Use it when Google News should handle a page differently from Google’s text results.

Parameters

noindex
Prevents the page from appearing in Google News results.
<meta name="googlebot-news" content="noindex">
nofollow
Tells Google not to follow links on the page for news results.
<meta name="googlebot-news" content="nofollow">
nosnippet
Prevents a text snippet or video preview in Google News results.
<meta name="googlebot-news" content="nosnippet">
max-snippet:-1
Lets Google choose the text snippet length.
<meta name="googlebot-news" content="max-snippet:-1">
max-image-preview:large
Allows an image preview as wide as the result viewport.
<meta name="googlebot-news" content="max-image-preview:large">
export type GooglebotNews =
     /**
   * Prevents the page from appearing in Google News results.
  **/
    'noindex'
    /**
   * Tells Google not to follow links on the page for news results.
  **/
    'nofollow'
    /**
   * Prevents a text snippet or video preview in Google News results.
  **/
    'nosnippet'
    /**
   * Lets Google choose the text snippet length.
  **/
    'max-snippet:-1'
    /**
   * Allows an image preview as wide as the result viewport.
  **/
    'max-image-preview:large'

Code examples

Good example
<meta name="googlebot-news" content="nosnippet">
Hides the snippet in Google News without applying that restriction to all Google text results.
Good example
<meta name="googlebot-news" content="max-image-preview:large">
Allows Google News to show a larger preview image for the page.
Avoid this example
<meta name="googlebot-news" content="news-only">
This is not a supported Google robots rule.
Avoid this example
<meta name="googlebot-news" content="noarchive">
Google no longer provides cached links, so it ignores noarchive.

Recommendations

  • 01
    Use It Only for a News Override
    General robots rules already apply to Google News. Add this tag only when news results need a different restriction.
  • 02
    Keep Web and News Rules Separate
    For example, googlebot-news nosnippet can hide a news snippet while leaving the Google text result snippet available.
  • 03
    Let Google Read the Rule
    Do not block crawling of the page in robots.txt. Google must fetch the page before it can see this tag.

Related documentation

Related meta tags

author

name

Names one author of the page. Add another author meta tag for each additional author.

<meta name="author" content="Jane Doe">
Names the author exactly as credited on the page.

charset

charset

Declares the character encoding used by the HTML document. In modern HTML, the value must be UTF-8.

<meta charset="utf-8">
The required character encoding for modern HTML.

description

name

Summarizes the page for directories and search engines. Google may use it as a search result snippet when it describes the page better than the visible content does.

<meta name="description" content="Bake 12 vanilla cupcakes in 35 minutes. Includes metric measurements, storage notes, and fixes for cakes that sink.">
Specific details tell the reader what the recipe covers.

google

name

Carries Google-specific page controls. Google currently documents nopagereadaloud for this metadata name.

<meta name="google" content="nopagereadaloud">
The documented Google-specific opt-out for page read-aloud services.

google-site-verification

name

Verifies ownership of a site in Google Search Console. Google provides the exact token to place on the site’s top-level page.

<meta name="google-site-verification" content="your_verification_code">
Replace this placeholder with the exact token issued by Search Console.