Questions tagged [noindex]
Common value for a HTML robots meta tag.
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How to 'noindex' a specific image on a specific page on my website?
I'm generally aware how the noindex HTML tag works and how to use it. However, I haven't managed to find a way to not index specific images on specific pages on my website.
I'm looking for a ...
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How to stop Google from indexing my webpage? [duplicate]
I have a webpage /user/login , I want to keep it private but Google has indexed the page.
I have tried lots of ways:
In robos.txt, I added a new line:Disallow: /user/, added header header("Robots: ...
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Is setting deep filtered categories to noindex a good practise?
The situation now: The project is not launched, but we have lot of categories and a big filter system in the end (color, brand, dimension, size, model, material,..).
Most of categories will have a ...
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SEO Ajax loaded pages - noindex X-Robots-tag
I have on my homepage (page A) html content (ajax) loaded on click of a button (load more) from multiple pages (page B).
Googlebot does see content and does follow links loaded from the ajax calls on ...
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Index Bloat Killing SEO [duplicate]
I have a strange problem with my WordPress site that has no common solution.
I’m currently in the middle of turning my site from a Lifestyle blog to a book-oriented blog and had to delete over 400 ...
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Ok to use meta noindex on 404 pages?
I have a custom 404.html file on my website that gets served with a 404 status code when a URL is not found, standard stuff. But if you visit the exact path /404.html on the server, the server says "...
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Do noindexed pages contribute to relevancy of page they link to?
Imagine following setup:
1 There is a category page, like canon-inc-cartridges.html. This page has content pieces, like
`<a name="canon-1234-inc-cartridges"><h3>canon 1234 inc cartridges&...
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How to prevent pages from being indexed in Google Search by using robots.txt? [duplicate]
In my robots.txt I disallowed some of the "thank you" pages on my site that I don't want to indexed by Google or be in Google search results. But those pages have recently become searchable on Google. ...
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Do noindex tags on subdomain pages affect image indexing?
Maybe stupid question, but I have to ask:
I'm hosting my images on a subdomain. My main site is example.com and images are stored on static.example.com.
Subdomain is just a simple html page - when ...
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How to use X-Robots-Tag to noindex all subdomains (save specific exceptions)?
Google's Robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag HTTP header specifications page (Practical implementation of X-Robots-Tag with Apache section) gives an example of noindexing certain filetypes, ie:
<...
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No index for an entire site
I am finishing a new project. I have been working local for the last weeks/months. Now I want to begin the first tests on the real server and sql database. I do not want the site to be public yet and ...
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Should eCommerce categories with pagination get noindex beyond the first page? [duplicate]
I have an eCommerce website and most of the categories have multiple pages.
I have ran an SEO check on seobility which mentioned duplicate content and pages fighting with each other for the same ...
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My URL can't be index in Google Search Result [duplicate]
I am not sure why my URL is not indexed on the Google SERP when I check it by site:. Here what I have done so far:
Submit the URL via "Fetch as Google" on Google Search Console
URL is on the Sitemap ...
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Prevent bad rankings on a Q and A site for questions without an answer by using noindex until answered
I have a website on which users can ask a question and also answer it. So, when a user asks a question, it creates a new webpage on website and below that question lies its answers.
I don't want ...
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Many pages with partial-duplicate content in same domain
This is a question to the SEO experts :-) I apologize for my bad way to write English :-(
I am developing a web application (with a kind of custom CMS). In my app there will be a "user section", each ...
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Will Google re-crawl and index a page that was once noindexed?
I have many pages Category Pages that show items inside, but all items has expire time and after reach it, items will remove from page. Sometimes happen, some categories/pages will be empty and this ...
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Should I noindex blocks used for parts of the template created as posts in Yoast?
I am setting up Yoast SEO plugin.
I am using a theme that creates HTML blocks. For example the footer is a block, which means that as a block, it's a custom post type, and applies for Yoast SEO set ...
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Wordpress Layered Nav pages - Noindex
I have been trying to figure out how to Noindex the pages created by Woocommerce widget - Latered Nav.
I use YOAST and have used that to noindex other irrelevant pages but cannot find a way to do it ...
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Should I noindex pages with standalone parts of the whole parent blog post?
I have a particular setup on my blog where I make blog posts that consist of 25 items - like "25 things that are this and that...".
Each of the 25 items is unique - created by me. These blog posts ...
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Discreetly remove page from Google index without modifying page HTML
Let's just say a "friend" wants to do a guest blog on your site with a link to their site, but you aren't very happy about it. You can't say no, but you don't want to be playing the "link juice" game. ...
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URLs with 'NoIndex` in robots.txt are being indexed by Google
In my robots.txt file (http://www.tutorvista.com/robots.txt), I'm using Noindex: /content/... to disallow indexing:
This should mean that http://www.tutorvista.com/content/ and anything below this ...
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Remove cached domain / pages from Google
The website's domain I work for is https://www.utazzitthon.hu and there is an other company in partnership with us, they have a domain that is directing to our server and our content, but with this ...
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Screaming Frog marking duplicate on noindex pages
Screaming Frog is detecting as duplicate all login pages of my site despite I have the directive robots-noindex.
Do I have a problem on my site, or is just a false positive from Screaming Frog?
It ...
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How to noindex certain Wordpress pages by default with Yoast?
I have WP website with multiple campaign landing pages made with Page Builder. All campaign pages are under /campaign/ so urls are always type http://example.com/campaign/some-landing-page Now I would ...
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Moving a site from one subdomain to another subdomain, what to do with pages which aren't “mappable”?
In the process of moving a site from one subdomain to another subdomain. For a lot of the subfolders a 301 redirect to their respective pages on the new site. However what should I do with subdomains ...
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Prevent indexing of site search results
Users have the ability to search on my site. This function renders a search results page that has occasionally been indexed by google and served in SERPs. Normally this is not an issue, but when ...
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Internal Search Results: NOINDEX or robots.txt Blocking?
We have our own internal search results pages for our download section.
These results are currently crawlable but with NOINDEX meta tags so they don't appear in the search index.
People link to ...
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How to prevent indexing of non-academic content by Google Scholar?
I work at a research institutions that has a Wordpress website where we publish academic articles and other content such as events, awards, news updates etc.
We want to use the plugin Kblog Metadata ...
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Prevent page indexing externally _without_ affecting internal google site search?
Is it possible to prevent google search from indexing a page, but still allow that page to be indexed by the custom search engine used for on-site search?
Our presenting problem concerns content we ...
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Google not indexing pages after lengthly accidental noindex meta tag
For 5 months I accidentally had thousands of pages from my site marked with a noindex meta tag, due to a bug in my code. Some of these came up as "soft 404" errors in GWT, but only a small portion.
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Does Having Too Many NoIndexed Pages Hurt Your Google Rankings?
I have a site like reddit. So 99% pages are thin content. I have no-index all pages.
The quality articles are only blog posts written by our team ( Now have around 50 blog posts with 1000-2500 words)....
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How to Deal with Low Quality Content (Without Deleting or Adding More Content)?
I have around 95% low quality articles in my web site. I don't need to delete them because those are for users. I don't want to search engine traffic also those articles. Those articles just for loyal ...
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Google Ignoring Canonical - Asking for Advice on Alternative Option
We self-host video content on our site and allow other sites to embed our videos using IFRAME.
Up until a few months ago, we used to canonical the iframe page to the video listing page on our website ...
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Can canonical links and noindex be used with iframes?
We have implemented canonical links to our website in order to prevent the indexation of parameters.
Some of the pages are also used as iframes. From the the little info I could find on 'iframes and ...
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Will Google automatically re-index my page when I remove the 'noindex' tag
On my request, our company has implemented a function in our website that adds <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> to blog articles and whitepaper pages that haven't been published yet.
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Merge duplicate subbdomains on different domains without hurting Google rankings
I have 2 different websites with identical sub domains, example -
invest.abc.com and invest.xyz.com, now both of these sub domains are ranking for different terms, so for 1 term only one sub domain ...
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SEO put no-indexed pages in sitemap or not?
On my site I have products. Each product has many releases. Each release has many changelogs. A changelog is one of many categories (eg, "Bug Fix", "Performance Improvement" etc).
I have created ...
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Method for removal of high number of spammy links
I haven't been able to figure out the right combination for deindexing spammy links from search results. On one hand, we have the Google URL remover which removes links temporarily (they may show up ...
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Which custom post types in Wordpress should be Noindexed for optimal SEO?
I'm using the All In One SEO pack, and read several guides on recommended/optimal settings.
However every guide typically shows just Pages, Posts & Media, whereas my site currently has a ton of ...
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Blocking vs noindex to reduce crawl requests
I observed that GoogleBot is making a lot of duplicate requests for the same URLs from my website within a week. Amongst these requests a majority were for low/thin value pages(no or very low SERP,not ...
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Do search engines still crawl a noindex page
Do search engines crawl a page that has a 'noindex' meta attribute?
The reason I ask is because we have near duplicate content caused by faceted navigation and the filtered pages have stated 'noindex'...
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Is Google starting to ignore link directories such as brownbook [duplicate]
After adding a website to brownbook.net and then claiming the business, It has not yet been indexed by google, and 2 months has passed.
I am newish to SEO and have worked out to check the robots.txt /...
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Should blank pages get a noindex tag or get deleted?
I was using webceo and came across pages that are blank. They of course have a URL, but no content.
So how do I know whether they should be noindexed (because they serve for functionality purposes) ...
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Is it 100% safe to add NOINDEX tag to any duplicate/copy content issues?
Usually I can simply copy and paste content from any blogs to the
my blog, and add a no index tag to avoid any duplicate/copy
content issues.
I have copied above part from popular blog. I need to ...
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Should I no-index pages that are links to articles with a short blurb — more than 90% of the posts on my blog
I have created a site like Digg.com, Bizsugar.biz: managewp.org. My site niche is WordPress and Web Development.
Users can submit links to my site. So, many pages are low quality because it has only ...
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Google not re-crawling subpages after “fetch as Google” with the “directly linked pages” option
After fixing a "noindex" issue on my WordPress website, where all my pages failed to be crawled by Google, I used Google Webmaster to re-index the website (without waiting). But it worked only for the ...
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Review my usage of NoIndex and rel=canonical [closed]
I am working with my developer to redesign my image macro (meme) generator website. I am concerned about semi-duplicate and paginated pages appearing in the search index and would appreciate your ...
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Pruning expired pages using noindex?
I have a busy website which contains several hundred thousand event pages.
Due to their very nature, they expire once the event has passed, so there will always be more past events than upcoming.
I'...
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How to correctly remove MULTIPLE parameters from the Google index using htaccess and canonical / noindex?
I found a similar question with a great answer for removing a single URL parameter. However, what if I have 20+ URL parameters that I don't want indexed?
Also, in the example solution below, it is ...
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Should I use NOINDEX, FOLLOW to solve link juice dilution for UTM link parameters?
I'm reading that links with UTM tracking code are considered as separate links from Google's point of view and can be recognized as duplicated content.
(1) I know NOINDEX, FOLLOW can solve the ...
