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jamesx521
03-02-2010, 05:27 PM
I put noindex,nofollow on two sites that I don't want to be crawled. But no good outcome yet; they're still being indexed. I also read online that people are having issues with these.
Aside from using the noindex, nofollow, I didn't remove/edit the content, title, META keywords & description yet: Does that have anything to do with it?
Jarrod1937
03-07-2010, 09:26 PM
You must request the pages to be removed after you've added instructions for them to not be indexed... they won't disappear on their own.
jamesx521
03-10-2010, 05:23 PM
Actually they did go away, and I didn't do anything else. It took about a week though.
savaintl1@gmail
03-12-2010, 12:59 AM
as per my experience nofollow and noindex tags do not works which we used in meta tags. So I will prefer webmaster tool or robots.txt file.
tarzan10
03-19-2010, 07:59 AM
when I build webistes I always use robots.txt to keep the crwlers away. Always working fine.
svidgen
03-19-2010, 09:59 AM
Nofollow does not actually prevent crawling! It's intention is ONLY to prevent exchange of Ranking/Quality data between pages. As per the previous post, proper robots.txt rules will usually prevent crawling. (but not necessarily)
Jarrod1937
03-19-2010, 11:38 AM
Nofollow does not actually prevent crawling! It's intention is ONLY to prevent exchange of Ranking/Quality data between pages. As per the previous post, proper robots.txt rules will usually prevent crawling. (but not necessarily)
You misunderstand, he is using "noindex,nofollow", this is completely separate from rel="nofollow" for links. Noindex does the same job as a robots.txt file, but can be used on a per page basis (aka by code logic) which makes it more flexible, but just as effective as the robots.txt. And the Nofollow in the robots tag means something entirely different than what you're used to, it tells a spider whether or not to follow additional links within the given page to check and possibly index them, it has nothing to do with the link parameter rel="nofollow" which is to prevent pagerank votes from being passed by that link.
Please research more before making such a post (and underlining incorrect info ;-)
svidgen
03-19-2010, 11:52 AM
My apologies ... I read the thread in a bit of haste.