Google’s John Mueller was asked about if it is still okay to use noindex and canonicals at the same time and when to use one or the other. This is a topic we covered several times here over the years but I spotted a new Reddit thread with John’s comments on it, so I figured … Read more
Google’s John Mueller clarified the longstanding confusion about whether it’s appropriate to use a noindex rule and a canonical tag on the same page. A 2021 statement suggested that using both might ‘maybe’ work, but his latest statement provides a more detailed and definitive answer. Noindex Rule And Rel=Canonical An HTML element is like a … Read more
Google is reportedly working on fixing a bug with not being able to properly respond to a noindex directive on some JavaScript generated pages. This is happening for some React apps using Single Page Applications (SPAs) that have the noindex directive on them but Google is not picking it up and thus indexing pages that … Read more
Martin Splitt from Google said on the latest SEO office hours that having lots of nofollow or noindex tags or attributes on your site does not signal to Google that you have quality issues with your site or many low quality pages. The question was, “Can using a lot of nofollow or noindex tags signal … Read more
What Is Noindex? Noindex is a rule that tells search engines like Google not to index a given webpage—to prevent it from being stored in a database that’s drawn from to show search results. This means that when you noindex a page, search engines won’t save that page. And it won’t show up in search … Read more
A noindex meta tag is an HTML attribute that is used to instruct search engines not to include a particular webpage in their search results. This means that when a search engine crawls a website, it will not index the pages with the noindex meta tag. This can be useful when you don’t want a … Read more
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question on LinkedIn to discuss the use of an unsupported noindex directive on the robots.txt of his own personal website. He explained the pros and cons of search engine support for the directive and offered insights into Google’s internal discussions about supporting it. John Mueller’s Robots.txt Mueller’s robots.txt has … Read more
Did you know that sometimes those bot protection services will serve Google and other search engines noindex directives? Google’s John Mueller said this on X, saying, “Sometimes there’s bot-protection (or a login, interstitial, etc) triggering that has a noindex on it.” He also added that it would be better for them to serve 503 server … Read more
Google’s John Mueller answered a question in Reddit about whether it’s okay to no-index a webpage in order to keep it from being shown in the sitelinks. Sitelinks, which are clustered links in the search results from one domain and are are typically shown when someone searches for the name or URL of a website. … Read more
Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said he would take the feedback he heard from the publisher community yesterday back to the Google Search team. This feedback was around Google’s advice on using the noindex for syndication partners after removing the canonical advice from its docs a while back. The canonical change, where Google said don’t … Read more
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