Search Engines and the NoIndex issue
September 1st, 2006
Matt Cutts has highlighted how various major search engines deal with the meta noindex tag in Handling noindex meta tags. In one of his recent blog he noticed the following issue when analysing a particular website and the effect of the Noindex attribute in the search engine resultsets
- Google doesn`t show the page at all
- Ask doesn`t show the page at all
- MSN shows a url reference and Cached link, but no snippet. Clicking the cached link doesn`t return anything.
- Yahoo! shows a url reference and Cached link, but no snippet. Clicking on the cached link returns the cached page.
However, ironically, if you use a robots.txt file Google does show the page in the some ways, which Matt Cutts acknowledges.
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