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The noindex value of an HTML robots meta tag requests that automated Internet bots avoid indexing a web page.

The noindex value of an HTML robots meta tag requests that automated Internet bots avoid indexing a web page.

Example:

<html>
<head>
 <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
 <title>Don't index this page</title>
</head>
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noindex nofollow for a url that contains some words

I have a site that contains many urls that are being indexed by Google for example: https://www.cedarscottages.com/book/online/select/March-1659 https://www.cedarscottages.com/book/online/select/March-1635 But they have the same content and Google…
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robots.txt exclude paths with language

If i for example want to disallow the following path on my page: http://www.examplepage.com/en/testing But not only the /en/ version, also /da/, /de/ etc. (you get my point). How would i do that the smartest way? Without writing a disallow for the…
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noIndex, noFollow and Canonical Tags on Facet Page SEO

We realized that we have a large number of duplicate pages of our eCommerce site indexed in Google especially the large number of facet urls such as color pages, Price pages etc. These are already indexed each having a canonical url pointing to…
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NopCommerce - using metatag noindex on specific page and language

I have a site that uses 3 languages. The thing is only one of those languages has a specific page. (the client wants each language to be used for each country that he sells to) I could create a metatag in the header that would ignore the full page,…
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Will setting noindex/nofollow on parent pages affect site SEO for child pages?

This is a two part question. Each parent page to link to the first Child page. They parent pages will not have any content. They will serve as main menu links, site URL structure and site hierarchy. My website(wp) structure is as…
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I want to block search engines from indexing categories after page one in WordPress

I'm using the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast and I was wondering if the checking "noindex, follow" under the Categories option will block all pages after the first page in a category or if it will hide the category from Search Engines? Thanks!
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Target pages on my site are getting deindexed by google

every target page we have built links to is fetting deindexed could it be this tag (although i thought it was always there) or is it the links im building? This site i am talking about is 1800lawfirm.com
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Bot function after NoFollow rule

I was just wondering what the function of googlebot or any other search engine spider/bot was after you use the no follow rule in a meta tag. Presumably the bot is on your site and gets to a page through link redirection, etc but if the linked page…
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FAST Search verify noindex

In FAST Search, content can be ignored a couple of ways - By using a meta tag By encompassing links into a tags Is there a way to verify that this is actually working other than doing a before and after on the search results?
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How to noindex AJAX-loaded pages without a head tag?

On a client's website there are a series of tutor popups that are located on separate pages. http://launcheducation.com/ The thing is that they do not need to be noindexed, they're just popups on the main page. If you load the links directly they…
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noindex, follow?

this is just a simple SEO question. I have a wordpress SEO plug-in that has this option: Meta robots: [checkbox] noindex, follow Should I check this option if I want my page to be available on Google?
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How do I add a noindex meta tag to error report pages.

In Magento there are the generic error reports under /errors. These are currently getting indexed by Google. I tried adding the meta noindex tag to the /default/page.phtml but this did not seem to work. Perhaps I should even be touching these files.…
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How to get my website (fast) indexed after change from noindex to index?

I have accidentally put index.html with "noindex,nofollow" to my webserver and left it for few days. Now I have changed it to "index,follow", added sitemap.xml, and added webpage to google webmaster. What can I do more to tell google to index it…
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How to write a htaccess rule specific for a given subdomain? - Avoiding indexing some files

I have the following on my .htaccess file: Options +FollowSymlinks #+FollowSymLinks must be enabled for any rules to work, this is a security #requirement of the rewrite engine. Normally it's enabled in the root and we #shouldn't have to add it,…
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robots.txt disallow /variable_dir_name/directory

I need to disallow /variable_dir_name/directory via robots.txt I use: Disallow: */directory Noindex: */directory is that correct?
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