noindex is a rule set with either a <meta>
tag or HTTP response header and is used to prevent indexing content by search engines that
support the noindex rule, such as Google. When Googlebot crawls that page and
extracts the tag or header, Google will drop that page entirely from Google Search results,
regardless of whether other sites link to it.
Using noindex is useful if you don’t have root access to your server, as it
allows you to control access to your site on a page-by-page basis.
Implementing noindex
There are two ways to implement noindex: as a <meta> tag and
as an HTTP response header. They have the same effect; choose the method that is more
convenient for your site and appropriate for the content type. Specifying the
noindex rule in the robots.txt file is not supported by Google.
You can also combine the noindex rule with other rules that control indexing. For
example, you can join a nofollow hint with a noindex rule:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />.
<meta> tag
To prevent all search engines that support the noindex rule from indexing
a page on your site, place the following <meta> tag into the
<head> section of your page:
To prevent only Google web crawlers from indexing a page:
Be aware that some search engines might interpret the
noindex rule differently. As a result, it is possible that your page might
still appear in results from other search engines.
Read more about the noindex <meta> tag.
HTTP response header
Instead of a <meta> tag, you can return an X-Robots-Tag
HTTP header with a value of either noindex veya none in your response.
A response header can be used for non-HTML resources, such as PDFs, video files, and image
files. Here’s an example of an HTTP response with an X-Robots-Tag header
instructing search engines not to index a page:
Read more about the noindex response header.
Debugging noindex issues
We have to crawl your page in order to see <meta> tags and HTTP headers. If
a page is still appearing in results, it’s probably because we haven’t crawled the page since
you added the noindex rule. Depending on the importance of the page on the
internet, it may take months for Googlebot to revisit a page. You can request that Google
recrawl a page using the
URL Inspection tool.
If you need to remove a page of your site quickly from Google’s search results, see our
documentation about removals.
Another reason could also be that the robots.txt file is blocking the URL from Google web
crawlers, so they can’t see the tag. To unblock your page from Google, you must
edit your robots.txt file.
Finally, make sure that the noindex rule is visible to Googlebot. To test if your
noindex implementation is correct, use the
URL Inspection tool
to see the HTML that Googlebot received while crawling the page.
You can also use the
Page Indexing report
in Search Console to monitor the pages on your site from which Googlebot extracted a
noindex rule.
Biz bunu nasıl uyguluyoruz
Noindex only works if Google can fetch the page. Blocking a URL in robots.txt and adding noindex is the contradiction we find most often, and it leaves the page indexed with no description.
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