Basic Definition-
- From 1 September 2019 ,Google announced that Google Bot will no longer obey a robot.txt directive related to indexing.
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| Google Official Tweet |
- The reason behind the no-index robots.txt directive won’t be supported is because it’s not an official directive.
- The no-index will stop the page showing in search results, and the disallow will stop it being crawled.
- Read my previous blog post in order to in depth knowledge about robot.txt files.
- Below syntax will be no longer used in google.
- That’s no longer the case. The no-index robots.txt directive is no longer supported.
Syntax-
user-agent:*
Disallow/AdminPanel/
How to control crawling:-
- No-index in robots meta tags is the most effective way to remove URLs from the index when crawling is allowed.
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">
- 404 and 410 HTTP status codes which are related to "Page not found".
- Password protection.
- Disallow in robot.txt.
- Search console remove URL tool.
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