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Why doesn't google obey my meta noindex tags?
We've been getting some spam recently. Due to our patent-pending SEO techniques (:p), the spam on our site is getting pretty high up in google's index. We don't want that. One way we've helped to deal with this particular kind of spam is to add noindex, nofollow meta tags to these pages.
It seems like google is ignoring these tags. The actual code we are using:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
Does that look right? Does the space between noindex, nofollow make a difference? should I use "none" for the content instead? Is there anything else I should do?
It seems like google is ignoring these tags. The actual code we are using:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
Does that look right? Does the space between noindex, nofollow make a difference? should I use "none" for the content instead? Is there anything else I should do?
I’m thankful for any help, in advance.
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Inappropriate?I've had problems with the googlebot for years.
It was ignoring my robots.txt file, and its documentation was fubarred. Recently the problem went away; we switched to different wiki software and the thousands of (inappropriately) indexed pages finally aged out after over a year. I reported it repeatedly, (even resorting to a NANOG posting) but no luck. I wanted it to only index current wiki pages, not spammed or old ones.
It's annoying to see that similar googlebot problems remain. Is it a large # of pages? Have you tried asking google to remove some representative pages using the webmaster tools? What happened?
I’m ticked off.
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this answers the question
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Inappropriate?Specifics: my old complaint was reported here: http://www.irbs.net/internet/nanog/05...
and other places - Google's direct contact form, google newsgroups...
I never heard back from google in any way, shape or form.
I’m sad
