Magento’s default robots setting is store-wide. Sellable products should usually be INDEX, FOLLOW. Thin categories, test SKUs, and duplicate listings should not. SEO NoFollow Index writes the robots meta on product and category pages — a store default, then a Follow Meta Tag override per item.
INDEX / NOINDEXFOLLOW / NOFOLLOWProduct + categoryStore defaultsPer-page override
Defaults
One setting for products. One for categories.
Stores → Configuration → Emmo Extensions → SEO No Follow Settings. These Alternate / Default Meta Tags apply until a product or category has its own Follow Meta Tag. Empty on the item = use the store value.
Emmo Extensions → SEO No Follow Settings
Category Settings
Product Settings
Catalog → Product / Category
Search Engine Optimization
Follow Meta Tag
Four combinations
The robots value Magento prints in the page head
INDEX, FOLLOWIndex HTML page, follow linksLive sellable products and important categories. The usual storefront default.
INDEX, NOFOLLOWIndex HTML page, do not follow linksIndex this URL; do not treat links on the page as crawl paths.
NOINDEX, FOLLOWDo not index HTML page, follow linksKeep the page out of results; still allow crawlers to follow links from it.
NOINDEX, NOFOLLOWDo not index HTML page, do not follow linksTest SKUs, private catalogs, pages you do not want crawled further.
Where it applies
Product view and category view
The observer sets Magento page robots on catalog_product_view and catalog_category_view. CMS, search, checkout, and other handles keep Magento’s Design / HTML Head robots unless you change those separately.
Product Follow Meta TagCatalog → Products → Search Engine Optimization. Overrides Product Settings for that SKU.
Category Follow Meta TagCatalog → Categories → Search Engine Optimization. Overrides Category Settings for that category URL.
Store-view configDefaults can differ per website / store view. The product and category attributes are global.
View source to checkLook for the robots meta on the live product or category page after cache flush.
Use it / leave it
Catalog robots — not a full SEO suite
Use it when
Products and categories need different robots
Index live products; noindex discontinued or test SKUs
Noindex thin or duplicate category pages
You want one default instead of editing every SKU
You already use Magento SEO fields and only need robots control
Do not expect
It does not rewrite robots.txt or the sitemap
No CMS-page or custom-URL robots
A category setting does not push noindex onto every product in that category
No per-domain dofollow / outgoing-link rewriter
No canonical, hreflang, or schema markup
Go live
Five steps. Check the meta tag.
1InstallEnable Emmo_SeoNofollowIndex and run setup:upgrade.
2Set defaultsSEO No Follow Settings → Product and Category = Index HTML page, follow links (or your policy).
3Override SKUsOn a test or duplicate product, Follow Meta Tag = Do not index HTML page, do not follow links.
4FlushClear Magento cache (and FPC / Cloudflare HTML if you use them).
5ConfirmView source on that product and a normal product. Robots should differ.
Module package — unzip as app/code/Emmo/SeoNofollowIndex, enable, run setup:upgrade
Attributes — Follow Meta Tag on product and category SEO groups
Not included
No sitemap editor. No robots.txt rules. No CMS robots. No “nofollow every product in this category” cascade. Page robots on catalog product and category views only.
Index the products you sell. Keep the rest out of the index. Support: [email protected]
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Reviews
Isabella Foster
Overall Rating
100%
The support is quick
With this extension, we can easily add meta robot tags to the website. The support is quick.
George Thompson
Overall Rating
100%
amazing functionality.
No index no follow is the extension that we are searching for, and it has really amazing functionality. Happy to buy from Emmo.
Amelia Harris
Overall Rating
100%
Wonderful extension!
This extension is easy to modify the robots tag of any page of Magento using this extension. Wonderful extension!
Oliver Turner
Overall Rating
100%
Easy modification
It did exactly what I needed! Easy modification of meta robot tags for categories, products, CMS pages, and custom URLs in my store. Big thanks for this extension!