Google Discusses NoIndex Options

Published: February 25, 2008, 2:16 pm

Tags: robots, seo, google, matt cutts, noindex meta tag, search engine optimization, search engines

According to Matt Cutts, Google is considering others ways of handling the NoIndex meta tag, as it relates to Search Engine Optimization. Of course, if he had his way he’d make sure none of the search engines indexed a page with the NoIndex meta tag. Currently, all the search engines have their own policies regarding NoIndex. Here’s the breakdown: - Google doesn't show the page in any way - Ask doesn't show the page in any way - MSN shows a url reference and Cached link, but no snippet. Clicking the cached link doesn't return anything. - Yahoo! shows a url reference and Cached link, but no snippet. Clicking on the cached link returns the cached page. Personally, I’d rather a page with the NoIndex meta tag not be shown any way at all than to be referenced and cached. I don’t want to click a link in a SERP and get a 404 error page or a page not returned for some reason. Google currently doesn’t show a NoIndex page. But Cutts is wanting feedback to

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