I recently started working on a site that has thousands of member pages that are currently robots.txt'd out.
Yes, remove the robots.txt disallow for that section and add a noindex tag. Noindex is the only sure-fire way to de-index URLs, but the crawlers ...
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Best of both worlds: crawl budget isn't overtaxed by thousands of noindex pages, and internal links used to index robots.txt-disallowed pages ...
The problem with robots.txt is that it doesn't always keep pages from being indexed especially if there are other external sources linking to ...
Hi Jens You can't add a noindex in the Robots.txt file. Firstly you need to add a noindex tag to all of the pages in the /node/ directory.
This seems like a dumb question, but I'm not sure what the answer is. I have an ecommerce client who has a couple of subdirectories ...
The disallow in robots.txt will prevent the bots from crawling that page, but will not prevent the page from appearing on SERPs. If a page with ...
The preferred option would be the noindex, follow tag. The robots.txt file is a choice of last resort. The best robots.txt file for a site ...
I think what I am going to say is going to sound like it is going against the grain, but it really isn't. I have noticed in some places if you want an ...
Disallowing these URLs in your robots.txt file might seem like a good way to save the crawl budget, but it can have unintended side effects.