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transbetty · 04-14-2015, 12:41 PM

Hello,

some time ago I have decided to remove tag and pagination (categories) pages from SERPS:

Code:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />

It has been already 3 weeks and those pages still show in SERPS.

Any idea why it takes so long?

aka123 · 04-14-2015, 02:06 PM

It depends; I have experienced about one week delay when changing titles, etc., but if you wish Google to remove some of your pages from SERPS, it may not happen altogether. For example, I accidentally did let Google to index my duplicate test site; Google started to direct visitors into there too and I got a fucking mess dealing with it. All this despite the fact that the site was maybe a day or so for Google to index until I forbid it, but Google didn't listen. So, I did what I should have done at the first place; I did put the whole site under password.

So, long story to short; Google may not ever obey your wish. As it is a wish.

transbetty · 04-14-2015, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aka123

It depends; I have experienced about one week delay when changing titles, etc., but if you wish Google to remove some of your pages from SERPS, it may not happen altogether. For example, I accidentally did let Google to index my duplicate test site; Google started to direct visitors into there too and I got a fucking mess dealing with it. All this despite the fact that the site was maybe a day or so for Google to index until I forbid it, but Google didn't listen. So, I did what I should have done at the first place; I did put the whole site under password.

So, long story to short; Google may not ever obey your wish. As it is a wish.

Looks pretty much it's the situation. Pretty annoying.

Advice for others: use noindex for tag / category pagination right from the start. Those pages don't have unique pages anyway, they will be treated as duplicate content.

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aka123 Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: 64 00 N, 26 00 E Posts: 4,450	It depends; I have experienced about one week delay when changing titles, etc., but if you wish Google to remove some of your pages from SERPS, it may not happen altogether. For example, I accidentally did let Google to index my duplicate test site; Google started to direct visitors into there too and I got a fucking mess dealing with it. All this despite the fact that the site was maybe a day or so for Google to index until I forbid it, but Google didn't listen. So, I did what I should have done at the first place; I did put the whole site under password. So, long story to short; Google may not ever obey your wish. As it is a wish. __________________