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    • Philip-DiPatrizio
      Philip-DiPatrizio last edited by

      If I've got a page that is being called in an iframe, on my homepage, and I don't want that called page to be indexed.... so I put a noindex tag on the called page (but not on the homepage) what might that mean for the homepage?  Nothing?  Will Google, Bing, Yahoo, or anyone else, potentially see that as a noindex tag on my homepage?

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        Philip-DiPatrizio @DeanAndrews last edited by

        Thanks.

        This is what I figured, but I realized that I've never tried it before and I wanted to be 100% sure before potentially noindex'ing my homepage 🙂

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          DeanAndrews last edited by

          In short the content contained in the iframe will not be indexed. I have previously used iframes for this reason to ensure that they do not get indexed.

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