Yeap, adding the noindex tag will remove that page from google results.
And no, there is no guarantee that rankings will improve nor go down by adding the noindex. It is just the patch in order to do not appear in search with a page you dont want to show.

You should anlayze those incoming visitors to the log-in page and try to figure out wherer they were looking to log in into the web or anything else.
Also, consider the idea that removing from index that log in page, will make those visitor to do extra interactions with your website in order to log in. Is your UX prepared to that? Have you analyzed your audience for that?

As you can see, there no simple answer, because you must take into consideration the intent and usability for those visitors.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

Hello vtmoz,

do you need that login page to be in google? this issue could be resolved just by adding a robots noindex tag in that page.

Here some more information about the Robots tag

Hope it helps.
GR.

Simone,

I've meant to set the configuration in Google search console, going to: search traffic -> international configuration. There go to the country tab and select your country.

Best luck.

GR.

Hello Simone,

I think this is a problem of regional targetting.

Well you are definetelly indexed. I get 290 results with site: search.
What i can see is that you have a gTLD and you want to rank for netherlangs. Have you configured the language in Search Console?
Cant see it from here, have you redirected the old site to the new one? That might help a little.

Let me know if those already done, in order to dig further.

Best luck.
GR.

Hello there,

I´d suggest you to go for the Option 1: two hops.
Google understands well up to 4-5 hops. Matt Cutts said it in these videos:
Can too many redirects from a single URL have a negative effect on crawling? Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site?

Also, I think that setting a 301 to a 404, it would give to GoogleBot mixed signals and there could be some cases where you get some links to that 301->404 page and lost that ones.

Best luck!
GR.

Hello Josep,

Firstly, when the noindex tag by itself doesnt stop pagerank to be transfered. The tag nofollow is the problem here.
Remember that the link equity is passed when you/the page lets the googlebot to go to and "follow" the next page.

Secondly, if you still repect the noindex, canonical and all the correct stuff to prevent the duplicate content, there will be no difference between folder and subdomain.

Hope it helps.
Best Luck.
GR.

Hi there,

There are many ways to do it. In my opinion:

• If the amount of pages is low, you can do it in just one sitemap.
• If the amount is really huge, do it in different sitemaps, stating in the name of each of them the language (e.g. sitemap-es-mx.xml) and create a sitemap_index.hml with all those.

Remember that its best practice to have the sitemaps in the root folder: domain.com/sitemap

Best luck.
GR.

Hello there!

Yes you should, better you must do a sitemap, but do not include the hreflang attribute.
Here: Google Search Console help you can see how a sitemap INCLUDING the hreflang looks like. Remove the portion:

<xhtml:link <br="">rel="alternate"
hreflang="de"
href="http://www.example.com/deutsch/"
/></xhtml:link>

Hope it helps.
Good Luck!
GR.

Hello!

I get that you are referring to the maximum size and/or the limit of URLs the sitemap file can have. That gets answered in the faq of sitemap.org: (link here)

Q: How big can my Sitemap be?
Sitemaps should be no larger than 50MB (52,428,800 bytes) and can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs.

Best luck!
GR

Hello Gavo,

How long has it been since the setting was applied in the yoast plugin? and how long has it been since you started seeing the wrong title in serp?
Would you please tellme in wich search engine (.com, or .co.uk or other) are you seing this issue?