Two META Robots tags on a page - which will win?

[jmueller]

Hi,

Does anybody know which meta-robots tag will "win" if there is more than one on a page?

The situation:
our CMS is not very flexible and so we have segments of META-Tags on the page that originate from templates.
Now any author can add any meta-tag from within his article-editor.
The logic delivering the pages does not care if there might be more than one meta-robots tag present (one from template, one from within the article).

Now we could end up with something like this:

Which one will be regarded by google & co?
First?
Last?
None?

Thanks a lot,
Jan

[Chris.Menke]

The two get aggregated or the most restrictive gets used so in this case, you'd get

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-robots-meta-tag.html

[brad.s.knutson]

Why not try to avoid the problem altogheter?  I assume the below line is site-wide:

If you remove the index, follow meta tag, your pages will still be indexed and followed.  Then allow your authors to decide on a post-by-post basis if they want to noindex or nofollow the page.

[PaddyDisplays]

I can confirm chris is correct, our crappy CMS does the same thing (for certain pages), and the pages are not indexed