Web pages in Google that should not be there

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Hi all,

Have 2 pages that are showing up in Google that should not be there.

If one goes here: TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL

At the bottom, there are 2 entries that should not be there

One is "August | 2014 ..."

The second is "Mike Jones ..."

** I have added the following to the robots.txt

#do NOT allow this site to be crawled AT ALL!
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

** I have also installed the SEO YOAST and configured it so that ALL items are "no index, follow"

** I also removed the indexing of the pages here:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals

QUESTION 1: What I want is the site not to be indexed - at all - nothing, nada, zip, zilch - Is there anything else I can do? I remove the items from the Google cache but they still return?

I also looked at this page:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/...-and-following
"you want the links on that page to pass the link value."

QUESTION 1: What does "you want the links on that page to pass the link value." mean?

Regards.
#search engine optimization #google #pages #web
  • Banned
    That main.domain.com page doesn't include a noindex in the HTML source code.

    Personally I would only use a noindex in the HTML of each individual webpage that I wanted removed from Google SERPs. Make it the first tag after the <head>.

    Example:

    Code:
    <head>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
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    • Thanks for the response.

      I want main.domain.com to remain.

      What I wanted to disappear was demo-estate.domain.com - this is just a demo page/site, so I did not want it to be in Google at all.

      It was for that reason I added

      to the robots.txt file under "demo-estate"
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  • In your real estate demo there is this code:
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">

    Try to change it to <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

    By default Search engines will index and follow, so you only need to specify when you do not want they to do that.
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    • Banned
      A webpage can be noindexed & still allow links to be followed, so that's not stopping his page from being removed from the SERPs. Google just hasn't found the noindex yet.
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  • These no index requests are simply requests, they do not have to be followed.

    What you could try is see if other search engines are indexing your web-page still, if they are, then it is most likely an issue on your end. If not, then it might have to do with Google.
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