NoIndex

NoIndex can be included as a so-called meta tag in the source code of a website. Search engines interpret this tag as a request not to index that page for search results. Consequently, a page with a NoIndex tag will not appear in Google search results. If you do not want entire directories of the website to be Bots have been crawled, these can be via the robots.txt be solved. This also makes it possible to Crawl-Budget optimize.

Typical candidates are thank-you and confirmation pages, internal search results, test environments, and thin content pages that provide no value to searchers.

A common mistake: setting NoIndex and blocking the same page via robots.txt at the same time. Then the bot cannot access it at all and never reads the instruction. If you want to remove a page from the index, you allow crawling and set NoIndex.

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