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Google to Site Owners: Remove Noindex Directives from Robots.txt via @MattGSouthern https://ift.tt/2Ye18qQ Google is emailing webmasters via Search Console telling them to remove noindex statements from their robots.txt file. The email reads:
These notices come just weeks after Google officially canceled support for the noindex rule. For now, Googlebot is still obeying the noindex directive and will continue to do so until September 1st. Site owners will then need to use an alternative. Technically, as stated in the email, Google was never obligated to support the noindex directive in the first place. It’s an unofficial rule that Google adopted when it started to become widely used by site owners. The lack of a standardized set of rules for robots.txt is another issue in and of itself – an issue that Google is working steadfastly to resolve. Until such time as a standard list of rules is established, it’s probably best not to rely solely on the unofficial rules. Here are some other options for blocking a page from being indexed:
SEO via Search Engine Journal https://ift.tt/1QNKwvh July 29, 2019 at 02:22PM
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