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Yahoo Search Supports X-Robots-Tags

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Webmaster life got a little easier as Yahoo Search, in the midst of some updates to the engine, added page level exclusion tags to what it can handle.

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Our discussion of possible pencilers was cut short by the realization these were X-Robots-Tags, which webmasters can serve up to Yahoo's crawlers. These directives allow the site publisher improved control at the page level of how content become indexed when Yahoo's Slurp comes calling.

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