{"id":25552,"date":"2026-09-05T02:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/block-search-indexing-with-noindex\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T02:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:45:33","slug":"block-search-indexing-with-noindex","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/block-search-indexing-with-noindex\/","title":{"rendered":"Block Search indexing with noindex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <code>noindex<\/code> is a rule set with either a <code>&lt;meta&gt;<\/code><br \/>\n      tag or HTTP response header and is used to prevent indexing content by search engines that<br \/>\n      support the <code>noindex<\/code> rule, such as Google. When Googlebot crawls that page and<br \/>\n      extracts the tag or header, Google will drop that page entirely from Google Search results,<br \/>\n      regardless of whether other sites link to it.\n    <\/p>\n<aside class=\"caution\">\n      <b>Important<\/b>: For the <code>noindex<\/code> rule to be effective, the page<br \/>\n      or resource <b>must not<\/b> be blocked by a robots.txt file, and it has to be otherwise<br \/>\n      accessible to the crawler. If the page is blocked by a<br \/>\n      robots.txt file or the crawler can&#8217;t access the page, the crawler will never see the<br \/>\n      <code>noindex<\/code> rule, and the page can still appear in search results, for example<br \/>\n      if other pages link to it.<br \/>\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\n      Using <code>noindex<\/code> is useful if you don&#8217;t have root access to your server, as it<br \/>\n      allows you to control access to your site on a page-by-page basis.\n    <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"implementing-noindex\" tabindex=\"-1\">Implementing <code>noindex<\/code><\/h2>\n<p>\n      There are two ways to implement <code>noindex<\/code>: as a <code>&lt;meta&gt;<\/code> tag and<br \/>\n      as an HTTP response header. They have the same effect; choose the method that is more<br \/>\n      convenient for your site and appropriate for the content type. Specifying the<br \/>\n      <code>noindex<\/code> rule in the robots.txt file is not supported by Google.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      You can also combine the <code>noindex<\/code> rule with other rules that control indexing. For<br \/>\n      example, you can join a <code>nofollow<\/code> hint with a <code>noindex<\/code> rule:<br \/>\n      <code>&lt;meta name=\"robots\" content=\"<strong>noindex, nofollow<\/strong>\" \/><\/code>.\n    <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"meta-tag\" tabindex=\"-1\"><code>&lt;meta&gt;<\/code> tag<\/h3>\n<p>\n      To prevent <i>all search engines<\/i> that support the <code>noindex<\/code> rule from indexing<br \/>\n      a page on your site, place the following <code>&lt;meta&gt;<\/code> tag into the<br \/>\n      <code>&lt;head&gt;<\/code> section of your page:\n    <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>To prevent <i>only Google web crawlers<\/i> from indexing a page:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\n      Be aware that some search engines might interpret the<br \/>\n      <code>noindex<\/code> rule differently. As a result, it is possible that your page might<br \/>\n      still appear in results from other search engines.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-meta-tag\/#robotsmeta\">Read more about the <code>noindex<\/code> <code>&lt;meta&gt;<\/code> tag<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<aside class=\"key-point\">\n<p>\n        <b>If you use a CMS, such as Wix, WordPress, or Blogger<\/b>, you might not be able to edit<br \/>\n        your HTML directly, or you might prefer not to. Instead, your CMS might have a search engine<br \/>\n        settings page or some other mechanism to tell search engines about <code>meta<\/code> tags.\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        If you want to add a <code>meta<\/code> tag to your website, search for instructions<br \/>\n        about modifying the <code>&lt;head&gt;<\/code> of your page on your CMS (for example,<br \/>\n        search for &#8220;wix add <span>meta<\/span> tags&#8221;).\n      <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<h3 id=\"http-response-header\" tabindex=\"-1\">HTTP response header<\/h3>\n<p>\n      Instead of a <code>&lt;meta&gt;<\/code> tag, you can return an <code>X-Robots-Tag<\/code><br \/>\n      HTTP header with a value of either <code>noindex<\/code> oder <code>none<\/code> in your response.<br \/>\n      A response header can be used for non-HTML resources, such as PDFs, video files, and image<br \/>\n      files. Here&#8217;s an example of an HTTP response with an <code>X-Robots-Tag<\/code> header<br \/>\n      instructing search engines not to index a page:\n    <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-meta-tag\/#xrobotstag\">Read more about the <code>noindex<\/code> response header<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"debugging-noindex-issues\" tabindex=\"-1\">Debugging <code>noindex<\/code> issues<\/h3>\n<p>\n      We have to crawl your page in order to see <code>&lt;meta&gt;<\/code> tags and HTTP headers. If<br \/>\n      a page is still appearing in results, it&#8217;s probably because we haven&#8217;t crawled the page since<br \/>\n      you added the <code>noindex<\/code> rule. Depending on the importance of the page on the<br \/>\n      internet, it may take months for Googlebot to revisit a page. You can request that Google<br \/>\n      recrawl a page using the<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9012289\" class=\"external-link\">URL Inspection tool<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      If you need to remove a page of your site quickly from Google&#8217;s search results, see our<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/removals-overview\/\">documentation about removals<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Another reason could also be that the robots.txt file is blocking the URL from Google web<br \/>\n      crawlers, so they can&#8217;t see the tag. To unblock your page from Google, you must<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/update-your-robots-txt-file\/\">edit your robots.txt file<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Finally, make sure that the <code>noindex<\/code> rule is visible to Googlebot. To test if your<br \/>\n      <code>noindex<\/code> implementation is correct, use the<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9012289\" class=\"external-link\">URL Inspection tool<\/a><br \/>\n      to see the HTML that Googlebot received while crawling the page.<br \/>\n      You can also use the<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7440203\" class=\"external-link\">Page Indexing report<\/a><br \/>\n      in Search Console to monitor the pages on your site from which Googlebot extracted a<br \/>\n      <code>noindex<\/code> rule.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A noindex tag can block Google from indexing a page so that it won&#8217;t appear in Search results. 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