Category: Technical SEO

noindex

Instruction: do not show this page in results.

noindex is a directive (in meta robots or an HTTP header) that tells the search engine not to put a page in its index. It is used for login, cart or thank-you pages. For it to work, the bot must be able to access the page — do not also block it in robots.txt.

🔗 Related terms

R

Robots meta

A tag controlling indexing of a single page.

I

Indexing

Adding a page to the search engine's database.

R

robots.txt

A file controlling bot access to the site.

N

nofollow (meta)

Instruction not to follow links on the page.

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