"No Index" Extensions
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Hi there,
We run an e-commerce website and we are aware of our duplicate page content/title problems. We know about the "rel canonical" tag and the "no index" tag but I am more interested in the latter. We use a CMS called Magento. Now, Magento has an extension that allows you to use the "no follow" and "no index" tag on products.
Google has indexed many of our pages and I wanted to know if applying the "no index" tag on duplicate pages will instruct Google to remove the duplicate url's it has already indexed. I know the tag will tell Google not to index a page but what if I apply it to a product already indexed?
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Hi Michael,
I Strongly recommend you to See this Video : http://moz.com/blog/handling-duplicate-content-across-large-numbers-of-urls
Some great ideas.
thanks
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Thank you so much. I will definitely take a look at these.
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Hi Michael,
This process is not always that instantaneous if "no index" is applied, with Google de-indexing. Please refer to these two threads that should give you more idea about the issue and possible solutions to speed up the process of de-indexation:
http://moz.com/community/q/put-no-index-meta-but-still-indexed
http://moz.com/community/q/why-is-google-not-deindexing-pages-with-the-meta-noindex-tag
Let me know if this helps!
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