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Meta noindex and nofollow ignored by Google?

  • robertman11 Level 3
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    Meta noindex and nofollow ignored by Google?

    I have pages I don't want indexed so I added a meta tag for search engines. It looks like this below:


    <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
    <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, nofollow">
     

    These tags have been there for months, however, the specific pages still show in Google Search. New content with these tags are also getting index. Are these tags being completely ignored by Google?

    #Noindex #Nofollow #Ignored Google
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    anwebservices

    anwebservices

    Interesting. According to Google webmasters forum post i found, published on April 6, 2016 this meta tags are still in use and OK. So i am not really sure how this happening to your site. Did you try to play with robots.txt too?
    8 years ago

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    Corzhens

    Corzhens

    I have come across several discussions that the Page Rank of Google is now obsolete and is not being used by Google anymore. Now comes this topic about the no-follow and do-follow which is really giving me a headache. I still do not completely understand the purpose of the no-follow link and the do-follow link. Now this discussion is hinting that the meta tags for a no-follow is ignored by Google which may mean that no-follow and do-follow have no distinction anymore?
    6 years ago

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