Comments on: What should NOINDEX do?

By: RedScourge

RedScourge — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:13:42 +0000

If someone has a no trespassing sign, you can still know that something is there, just not WHAT. You could use Google Maps to peer at the roof of it and guess what it might be, you could ask their neighbour, or you can perhaps get information about the lot or the building from city hall.

You have to read part of the page in order to parse the NOINDEX directive to begin with, so why not make it so any info that can be obtained up until the NOINDEX tag on the domain’s index page is fair game?

This way, you’re not “indexing” it, you’re just acknowledging that it exists, and not collecting any further data on it, so keyword searches can’t find it, etc.

By: sujit

sujit — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:39:30 +0000

Thnx for nice post , i have little bit confusion , if i use NOINDEX,Follow then how it can be handle in google; as described it completely disallow crwaling then how it can pass PR juice to other pages who linked with it, if cralwer not read the whole page..

By: Marco Demaio

Marco Demaio — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:30:34 +0000

Once I heard Google’s motto was “don’t be evil”.
I think indexing a page I expressively asked to NOINDEX it’s at some point EVIL (maybe just a bit evil).

By: paul

paul — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:20:51 +0000

“If somebody links to your site, and Google indexes that link, then your gripe is with the person who linked to your site … not with Google.”

no no no – when google follows a link it must check the target domain’s robots.txt and the target page’s meta tag. Google must acknowledge the tag as intended and regardless of how it found the page it should not be index’d.

noindex means no index

By: richard

richard — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:17:04 +0000

Why is this being debated – noindex means do not index.

Why does google think it owns the web? Just follow the directive and remove the url from your index.

By: Harris

Harris — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:52:55 +0000

I used nofollow tag in the head of many pages but google stills indexing the pages. Also is it possible to block some parts of our pages using html tags?

By: Bogus Name

Bogus Name — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:05:27 +0000

Read the label on the packet. NOINDEX means no indexing. Clear now?

By: Ilya

Ilya — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:44:15 +0000

In my country (Russia) Noindex tag means, that the biggest search enginge Yandex cant see information. So for example if i put noindex tag in comments, that means that Yandex can’t index this url links

By: Umang

Umang — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:11:39 +0000

My understanding is that the no follow tag is is used to google indexing and crawling your pages. Someone please help elaborate on my understanding.

Thanks

By: Scanto

Scanto — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:53:25 +0000

Ok guys, so I just mistakenly moved a site live that had that noindex tag from the test site. It was there for about a week. So how long before my rankings return? Is there anything I can do to encourage the spiders to come back and crawl in the meantime?