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    • Exa
      Exa last edited by

      I don't want few of the pages of website to get indexed by Google, thus I have implemented meta robots noindex code on those specific pages.

      Due to some complications I am not able to remove meta robots index from header of every page

      Now, on specific pages I have both codes 'index & noindex' implemented.

      Question is: Will Google crawl/index pages which have noindex code along with index code?

      Thanks!

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      • DirkC
        DirkC @Exa last edited by

        Difficult to tell how long it will take before it's completely removed (Google is never very clear on how long it takes). If it's urgent you could use the url removal tool :https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

        Dirk

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          Exa @DirkC last edited by

          Thanks Dirk, I believe my question is answered.

          However, the concern as of now is these pages are being fetched when we try Fetch as Google Bot in Google Webmaster Tools.

          Noindex tag were implemented on specific pages on 5th Oct & and last date of cache is 3rd Oct 2015.
          I wonder when these pages will be removed from Google Index.

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          • DirkC
            DirkC last edited by

            No they will not be indexed. Check: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.be/2007/03/using-robots-meta-tag.html:

            If content values conflict, we will use the most restrictive. So, if the page has these meta tags:

            We will obey the NOINDEX value.

            Dirk

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