Technical SEO

noindex

An instruction telling a supporting system not to include a page in search results.

A practical example

A staging page has a noindex meta tag.

What should I know?

The crawler must be able to read the instruction; blocking retrieval can prevent that.

Technical SEO in practice

Check crawler access, server responses, and content processing separately. Then assess indexing and search appearance. These stages are connected but distinct and need different diagnostic methods.

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Related terms

robots.txtA file telling supporting crawlers which paths they may retrieve.Meta robotsAn HTML tag giving crawlers supported instructions for indexing and displaying a page.X-Robots-TagAn HTTP response header providing crawler instructions, including for non-HTML resources.

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