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How to stop my webmail pages not to be indexed on Google ??
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when i did a search in google for Site:mywebsite.com , for a list of pages indexed.
Surprisingly the following come up
" Webmail - Login "
Although this is associated with the domain , this is a completely different server , this the rackspace email server browser interface I am sure that there is nothing on the website that links or points to this.
So why is Google indexing it ? & how do I get it out of there. I tried in webmaster tool but I could not , as it seems like a sub-domain. Any ideas ?Thanks
Naresh Sadasivan
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Hi,
So you did add a meta noindex tag? Great. Remember that Google needs to crawl the page to see the meta noindex, so blocking it in robots.txt will mean it's still indexed, but has about 0% chance to show up in search unless you search for that URL.
Also, I wouldn't spend any time worrying about obscure pages that are indexed. It's not going to hurt your rankings.
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"However i have double checked that where is no external link to the webmail pages from any other source"
the link might be so obscure that seomoz has not picked it up and google bot has. Note in WMT there is "latest back links" but there is a few weeks delay on them, so the link might be recent.
I'm 99% sure there has to be a link from somewhere, or there is no way google can find that page.
I have added the No-index as well in my robot.txt file on my site but yet no change.
It will not take effect until the next time google crawls your site, I think it took a week or so before my test site was removed (i did no robot.txt file too)
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Thanks for the prompt response . However i have double checked that where is no external link to the webmail pages from any other source.
I have added the No-index as well in my robot.txt file on my site but yet no change.
The Webmail - Login access has been provided by the hosting provider and i do not have the access to their files other that checking my Email using their system.
Thanks
Naresh Sadasivan
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there must be a link from somewhere for google to pick it up, I had a test site on a sub domain that got picked up to my surprise. The reason, the site had pinterest button on the product pages, and the developer had tested it to see if it worked, and later removed it, but someone (or something) repinned it and then a backlink to my test site was born
Point is there are millions of ways to get a back-link accidentally .
Best way not to list is either added it to you robots.txt file or add No-index to the webmail page
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