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Aug 04, 2020 - 09:02 AM
This will ensure that Google and other search engines will know that you want to allow snippets of text shown in their search results. This allows your content ot be shown as featured snippets as well as other text snippets to be shown in the search results, to effectively give search users the ability to preview what content is on your page before they click in.
This setting controls whether we put a "nosnippet" attribute into your robots meta tag on the page. If you have this enabled, the "nosnippet" attribute will not show....but if you don't have this enabled then the "nosnippet" attribute will show which tells Google and other search engines to not show snippets of your page.
See example here what your robots meta tag may look like if you enable the showing of snippets:
and this is what it would look like if you don't enable the showing of snippets for search engines:
Most customers will want this enabled, so that their content can show up in featured snippets and so previews of their content can lead the user into their page.
This setting controls whether we put a "nosnippet" attribute into your robots meta tag on the page. If you have this enabled, the "nosnippet" attribute will not show....but if you don't have this enabled then the "nosnippet" attribute will show which tells Google and other search engines to not show snippets of your page.
See example here what your robots meta tag may look like if you enable the showing of snippets:
<meta name="robots" content="follow, index" />
and this is what it would look like if you don't enable the showing of snippets for search engines:
<meta name="robots" content="follow, index, nosnippet" />
Most customers will want this enabled, so that their content can show up in featured snippets and so previews of their content can lead the user into their page.