If Google is forbidden from lookiing at the content of the page by the robots.txt they will not see the meta noindex tag.
I added noindex tags to a couple of pages 2 days ago and they are already out of the index.
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Job Title: Head Nerd in Chief
Company: MAWA, LLC
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Science Fiction ecommerce
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The thought that one day it might actually bring visitors to my sites.
If Google is forbidden from lookiing at the content of the page by the robots.txt they will not see the meta noindex tag.
I added noindex tags to a couple of pages 2 days ago and they are already out of the index.
Hmm not sure. Did you reindex / recache after that?
I'm not sure this will work as mine is turned on but there is an option titled:
Use Categories Path for Product URLs - Yes/No
under System/Configuration/Catalog/Search Engine Optimizations.
If Google is forbidden from lookiing at the content of the page by the robots.txt they will not see the meta noindex tag.
I added noindex tags to a couple of pages 2 days ago and they are already out of the index.
I sell nerdy t-shirts and science fiction stuff.
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