A noindex, follow robots meta tag is code to advise search engines like Google to not index this page, but do follow the links to other pages and pass link benefit (PageRank/PR). The code is loaded within the head section of a web page and looks like this when viewing the code source:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/>
The above code can be added to WordPress archives using the popular Yoast SEO plugin and All In One SEO plugin and it’s very easy for beginners to WordPress SEO to use inappropriately.
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