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Block or NoIndex RSS and XML feeds

Blocking or No indexing of RSS feeds can be done in a similar way to  standard HTML documents. Whereas HTML documents contain a statement within the document <head> i.e:
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,follow” >

RSS (a form of XML) can also contain a “meta” tag usually located before the first <item>.The directive can be seen below:

<xhtml:meta content="noindex" name="robots" […]

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