Google ignores Meta name="Robots"
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Ciao from 24 degrees C wetherby UK,
On this page http://www.perspex.co.uk/products/palopaque-cladding/ this line was added to block indexing:
But it has not worked, when you google "Palopaque PVC Wall Cladding" the page appears in the SERPS.
I'm going to upload a robots txt file in a second attempt to block indexing but my question is please:
Why is it being indexed?Grazie,
David -
BJS1976 is correct. Take a look at Google's cached page and view the source:
The meta robots tag is not there, so Google hasn't re-crawled your site since this line of code was added.
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Hi David,
When did you add the tag? Was it added after 9 Jul 2013 19:08:35 GMT ? (this is when Google cached this page last).
I would advise you not to add it to Robots.txt - This only prevents page from getting into the index, but it does not remove pages from the index.
I don't think the formatting matters - e.g, the space or no space - see this link: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/using-robots-meta-tag.html
I would guess that Google has not re-crawled the page since you added the tag in.
If you want to get rid of it quickly, use Google Webmaster Tools > Remove URL.
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Hi David,
I was checking your source and it says:
Is it possible that missing a space in code doesn't stop Google indexing it? (I think that's causing your issue)
Here's a documentation how to implement it correctly directly from Google
Hope it helps,
Istvan
Later edit: btw: it should be something like this:
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