SEO glossary

Noindex

A directive, set in a meta robots tag or an X-Robots-Tag HTTP header, that tells search engines not to include a page in their index.

Search engines must be able to crawl a page to see its noindex directive, so do not block noindexed pages in robots.txt.

Noindex is the right tool to keep thin, duplicate or private pages out of search results.

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