diff --git a/tests/checker/test_content_allows_robots.py b/tests/checker/test_content_allows_robots.py
index 605ea1e2..8802093a 100644
--- a/tests/checker/test_content_allows_robots.py
+++ b/tests/checker/test_content_allows_robots.py
@@ -16,10 +16,19 @@
 """
 Test that <meta name="robots" content="nofollow"> is respected when using http
 and ignored when checking a local file.
+Also test different values of the content attribute are correctly matched.
 """
+import unittest
+
+import linkcheck.configuration
+import linkcheck.director
+from linkcheck.htmlutil.htmlsoup import make_soup
+from . import get_url_from
+
 from . import LinkCheckTest
 from .httpserver import HttpServerTest
 
+
 class TestHttpMetaRobots(HttpServerTest):
     """Test <meta name="robots" content="nofollow"> using http."""
 
@@ -33,6 +42,7 @@ class TestHttpMetaRobots(HttpServerTest):
         ]
         self.direct(url, resultlines, recursionlevel=1)
 
+
 class TestFileMetaRobots(LinkCheckTest):
     """Test <meta name="robots" content="nofollow"> from a file."""
 
@@ -52,3 +62,23 @@ class TestFileMetaRobots(LinkCheckTest):
             "error"
         ]
         self.direct(url, resultlines, recursionlevel=1)
+
+
+class TestMetaRobotsVariants(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Test different values of the robots meta directive content attribute"""
+
+    def test_nofollow_variants(self):
+        config = linkcheck.configuration.Configuration()
+        aggregate = linkcheck.director.get_aggregate(config)
+        url = "http://example.org"
+        url_data = get_url_from(url, 0, aggregate)
+        url_data.content_type = "text/html"
+
+        url_data.soup = make_soup('<meta name="robots" content="nofollow">')
+        self.assertFalse(url_data.content_allows_robots())
+
+        url_data.soup = make_soup('<meta name="robots" content="nocache, Nofollow, noimageindex">')
+        self.assertFalse(url_data.content_allows_robots())
+
+        url_data.soup = make_soup('<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">')
+        self.assertTrue(url_data.content_allows_robots())