Google indexing tags help

[ttb]

Hey everyone,

So yesterday someone pointed out to me that Google is indexing tags and that will likely hurt search engine results. I just did a "site:thetechblock.com" and I notice that tags are still being pulled.

http://d.pr/i/WmE6

Today, I went into my Yoast settings and checked "noindex,follow" tags in the Taxomomies settings. I just want to make sure what I'm doing is right.

http://d.pr/i/zmbd

Thanks guys

[ttb]

So a day later and when I go into my source I'm not seeing

Should I go into my robot.txt file and disallow them? What other suggestions would you have?

[David_ODonnell]

Double check you're not getting a cached page when you're looking at your source code (empty the cache if you're using a caching plugin, delete browser cached files).

If you don't see that noindex,follow in your source code then the plugin may not have been able to automatically add the code. You may have to hit up the plugin support to see if it's a known issue with a fix.

If / when you get a fix you should update this post in case anyone else has the same issue. Good luck.

[ttb]

So I went go to Google and typed: site:thetechblock.com and a few pages in I started seeing links with /tag/ example: http://thetechblock.com/tag/microsoft

When I click it, it brings me to the main page, and if I check the source, I don't see anything like:

Does that mean nothing has worked and the problem is still there?

[David_ODonnell]

I meant view the page source of one of your tag pages and look for:

 It may take days, weeks or longer to stop seeing /tag/ results in the SERPs.

[ttb]

By that do you mean go into Google Webmaster and check off that it's been "fixed"?

How long do you think a re-crawl will take?

[David_ODonnell]

The settings look correct, but you should go to a tag page and manually verify the code has been added.

Then you'll need to wait for Google to re-crawl and update their index which could take a while.