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If your intention is to keep the page for "follow" I would not submit a removal request for the page since that will wipe it off the map. Google needs to crawl your page to know you don't want it indexed.

As I said, Google already re-crawled them and they are not re-indexed. Last cache dates show all is correctly lef out of  new indexation.

I guess my concern was how long this pages will stay in index. That was done to make sure Panda will be able to recalculate the value of the site.

Bunch of thin content (catalog) pages modified with "follow, noindex" few weeks ago. Site completely re-crawled and related cache shows that these pages were not indexed again. So it's good I suppose

But all of them are still in main Google index and shows up from time to time in SERPs. Will they eventually disappear or we need to submit removal request?Problem is we really don't want to add this pages into robots.txt (they are passing link juice down below to product pages)Thanks!

Yes they are in Google and are pretty thin content-wise. That's why we think it was the reason we've been Pandalized in August.

Need to de-index them ASAP.

We had a bunch of catalog pages "noindex,follow" 'ed. Now should we also submit removal request in WMT for these pages?

Thank you!

LL

Irving, should we also submit removal request for these pages?

Thank you

These are not so bad pages, they are catalog pages, must be there with noindex, follow tags.

Going grey isn't an option unfortunately - there are ~50,000 of them.

Already noindexed and followed. I guess it will take next Panda data refresh to see the results. Thank you Irving.

Experimenting a little bit to recover from Panda and added "noindex" tag for quite a few pages. Obviously now we need Google to re-crawl them ASAP and de-index. Should we leave these pages in sitemaps (with updated "lastmod") for that? Or just patiently wait? What's the common/best way?

Already did. Think we can adjust few things.

Weird that Bing traffic went down the same way as Google. It's Google's Panda afterall so does that mean that rumors were true and Bing "steals" Google results to add to it's own SERPs?

Not sure I understood this part: "You should also have canonical tags on every page."

Thank you!

Edited: Ah I see what you mean. Unfortunately we can't. Pages may look similar but locations are completely different.  Happens because some locations may have almost identical set of retail chain stores (obviously same products in same stores...)