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Noindex

A rel=”noindex” directive is used to instruct search engines not to include a page within their index, to prevent it from appearing within search results. Our SEO Office Hours Notes below explain the use of this directive, along with further advice compiled from Google’s Office Hours sessions and real-world examples.

For more on noindex directives, check out our article:  Noindex, Nofollow & Disallow.

Don’t Mix Noindex and Canonical

Having a page with a canonical tag pointing to a page with a noindex is a problem but the canonical might just be ignored.

1 Dec 2015

Canonicalising Product Variants Loses Unique Content

If you have product variant pages, instead of noindexing, you are better to canonicalise the variations to a single version which can consolidate all the ranking signals. However you will lose any unique content from those variations.

1 Dec 2015

Use Noindex to Remove Pages from Sitelinks

If you demote Sitelinks, it just reduces their weight so they might still appear. You may have to remove the page from the index. The demotion may take ‘several’ weeks to process. If you have really bad Sitelinks which won’t disappear, but you want it to remain indexed, then you can contact them.

1 Dec 2015

Duplicate Pages with a Noindex May Be Selected

If you have duplicate pages with the same content which aren’t canonicalised, but one of the pages has a noindex, then Google might pick the noindex version, and then that page will be noindexed even if there is an indexable duplicate.

27 Oct 2015

404 Pages Crawled Less Than Noindex

For expired/removed content, John says that Google prefer a 404 as it results in less crawling than a noindex.

27 Oct 2015

500 Error Pages May Impact Crawl Rate and Will Eventually be Treated as 404

500 errors can impact ranking. They might result in a lower crawl rate. If they are persistent, they will be treated like a 404 and dropped. Also, Google won’t see the content of a 500 page so you can’t use a meta noindex to get Google to drop those pages if that’s what you want.

16 Oct 2015

Noindexing paginated pages is OK

But canonicalsing makes much more sense which he doesn’t mention.

11 Sep 2015

Don’t Noindex Canonicalised Pages

You shouldn’t noindex pages which are canonicalised, otherwise they might ignore the canonical tag.

25 Aug 2015

Noindex Pages Can’t Accumulate PageRank

Noindex pages can’t accumulate pagerank for the site, even though the pages can be crawled. So this isn’t an advantage over disallowing.

7 Nov 2014

Unwanted Sitelinks Pages Can Be Nonidexed

Sitelinks which do not disappear after being demoted, can be removed by adding a noindex. If the Sitelinks are showing incorrect international pages, hreflang tags can be used to identify the preferred version.

24 Oct 2014

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