Meta noindex (follow, nofollow): Nice way to exclude content from searches The SEO Diagnostics for the Skilled Search Mechanic panel at SES New York last week, moderated by Kristjan Mar Hauksson (@optimizeyourweb), founder and director of Search...
For example, you might find important pages with “noindex, nofollow” on the page. I started my career in web development and web application development, and I’m glad I did. I use my programming skills on a regular basis in SEO, and especially when...
Meta directives (e.g.noindex, follow). It may be a new year, but that hasn’t stopped Google from rolling out yet another Panda refresh. Last year Google unleashed the most aggressive campaign of major algo updates ever in its crusade to battle rank...
This could be an indication of a lot of pages that are duplicates, near duplicates, pages with the noindex tag on them, or URLs that Google found that redirect to another page. If you could do only three things for SEO, what would they be?
Compared with the use of other methods of limiting the search engine crawl like robots.txt, parameter handling seems like a great option because directives like rel=canonical, rel=prev/next, rel=alternate, and the noindex tag will still be applied!
Meta Data: Will display any Meta Robots Noindex tags This article is a simple breakdown of how to go about using an SEO site crawler to quickly identify duplicate content. There are many tools out there, but Screaming Frog is definitely one of the...
If re-writing your supplied content simply isn’t feasible then noindex those pages at the very least. I work specifically with travel affiliate sites and it’s been a painful experience for many of them.
Strategic placement of a noindex tag into a page. My head is still spinning and my mind is still decompressing from everything I learned at the Blackhat and Defcon conferences last week. Blackhat and Defcon are what are professionally known as...
The “Directives” report allows you to find all the pages set to noindex, etc. Originally designed for finding bad links in a site, the simple crawler, especially combined with a bit of Excel wizardry, turned out to be useful for all sorts of site...
There are also meta robots tags ( < META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">) A robots.txt file is also found at url.com/robots.txt. We bandy around phrases like "CTR on page 1 of the SERPs is better than on page 2" and "god help me if my...
Believe it or not, it is still common for a site to be deindexed because someone accidentally added a noindex tag to the entire site. META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> A developer will noindex/nofollow the pages of the site to keep...
Chrome does have a great extension called Meta SEO Inspector that surfaces meta data relevant to SEO such as noindex, follow and meta link canonical tags. A never-ending argument is that of the ultimate SEO browser plugin/extension/add-on setup.
The source code was examined to see if a noindex tag had been added in. After several days of looking at this issue, and not really coming any closer to solving the issue, one of the team used the Fetch as Googlebot tool in Google Webmaster Tools...
You can recover from Panda by removing low quality pages from the index (canonical, noindex, etc. Tests that had been running when I wrote that article have now been concluded and today I’d like to present some remarkable conclusions.
You do this with this meta tag in the head of the page: meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /] Web developers are great: without them, we wouldn't have, well… the web! But unfortunately, a lot of developers can have a bit of a blind-spot...
This likely has ramifications for how Google handles ‘noindex, follow’ and canonical meta tags in concert, as well. Our methods for handling it typically employ ‘noindex, follow’ on paginated URLs (2, 3, 4, etc), and no use of rel canonical except...
Using a robots.txt file, robots meta noindex tag, or returning a 404 and placing that content on a separate sub-domain or domain, are the specific tactics to employ. Use of rel canonical annotations, on-page messaging, and even meta noindex, follow...
Adding noindex meta tags to SERP-like pages and tag clouds. Now there are reports that at least two websites have finally started to see more search traffic and higher Google rankings. How did they do it?
If you really want to make sure the URL is permanently removed, Google recommends you continue to use a noindex tag, robots.txt file, or have it return a 404 (Not Found) or 410 (Permanently Removed) status code.
When would someone use "noindex, follow" in a robots meta tag? Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Feb.to 19, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
