Robots.txt advice
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Hey Guys,
Have you ever seen coding like this in a robots.txt, I have never seen a noindex rule in a robots.txt file before - have you?
user-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: trovitBot
User-agent: Nutch
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /User-agent: *
Disallow: /WebServices/
Disallow: /*?notfound=
Disallow: /?list=
Noindex: /?*list=
Noindex: /local/
Disallow: /local/
Noindex: /handle/
Disallow: /handle/
Noindex: /Handle/
Disallow: /Handle/
Noindex: /localsites/
Disallow: /localsites/
Noindex: /search/
Disallow: /search/
Noindex: /Search/
Disallow: /Search/
Disallow: ?I have never seen a noindex rule in a robots.txt file before - have you?
Any pointers? -
Never seen this, doubt it's any useful as this isn't part of any search engines recommended statements to use. I don't think this would have any impact on what search engine robots would look at as it's not a statement in the robots.txt documentation.
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Best I could find was-
Unlike disallowed pages, noindexed pages don’t end up in the index and therefore won’t show in search results. Combine both in robots.txt to optimise your crawl efficiency: the noindex will stop the page showing in search results, and the disallow will stop it being crawled
From-https://www.deepcrawl.com/blog/best-practice/robots-txt-noindex-the-best-kept-secret-in-seo/
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