instructions around the usage of meta robot tags and robots.txt files · CMSgov/price-transparency-guide@bc8e96e

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The location of the these URLs *must* be provided over HTTPS to ensure the integrity of the data.

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Robots.txt

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To allow for search engine discoverability, neither a `robots.txt` file nor `meta` tag on the page where the files are hosted will have rules such that give instructions to web crawlers to not index the page.

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This is typically follows the format of `<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow>"` or for a `robots.txt` file the usable of the `Disallow` directive.

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Special Data Types

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