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MATT CUTTS: Today’s question comes from Alex in Montreal.
Alex asks, Hi Matt, I’ve been having issues with the no index attribute. In some instances I placed the attribute to block a page but it still seems to get indexed.Even when the page is cached with the no index attribute,the page is not disappear.Thoughts?
Great question, Alex.
I answered another webmaster video question with a somewhat similar answer, which is if you see something like this, that seems like it’s a clear bug in our robots.txt text or our noindex handling, or we’re treating a web pages as if it’s a video, or something where you can grab a screen shot or point to a particular link an so and show this is really a bug, that’s a perfect time to show up in our Google webmaster forum.
Which is linked to from google.com/webmasters.Now with your particular question, I’ve actually seen one thing like this happen before.
You used the word no index twice in your question. And you put a space in both times.
And I think noindex should have no space in it.So I’ve seen at least one person in the past who they actually had some spam.And I pointed it out to them.And they said, oh no, how did you know about that?
I was supposed to use the noindex so you could never see that spam.And I said, well you forgot and you put a space in the noindex tag. So it could be that that’s what’s causing the problem.
If it’s not, no matter what, if you see something that looks like a clear, clear bug, that’s a great time to show up.Leave a question the webmaster forum.
And then sometimes people can instantly point out, oh maybe you misspelled noindex, or added a space in, or here’s the strange thing.
But either way, that’s a great way to help diagnose and debug those sorts of situations.
Quick Answer: Report it via the Google Webmaster Forum