Robots.txt VS meta robots INDEX
 

I have a robots text that disables the entire site for indexing

# Make changes for all web spiders
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

but I have robots meta data at the top of each page saying to index it. Which will happen? I don't want it to get indexed but I dont want to disable the plugin adding the robots meta data either.

Which one of these rules will trump the other?

Thanks in advance - and please don't guess.

come on guys, I know all the smart people are working Sunday morning. Hook me up with the info please.

robots.txt

robots.txt
think about it for a sec :)

they should follow robots.txt first

I have no idea

robots.txt is looked for first, and followed - so it won't bother hitting the metas if you no-index the site.

Yahoo! will take forever to index and list you if you don't have a robots.txt, for example, even if you have a robots meta tag.