"No index, no follow" duplicate page got indexed...Should I be worried?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by brighthope, May 5, 2009.

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    Hi, I have a webpage which sells some stuff. I use affiliaters and I separate the sales sites for them, but the content is the same. So I used a "no index, no follow" meta tag. (I'm sure I used the right tag).

    However, my site got indexed both by Yahoo! and Google, and actually got page rank of 4 (a lot of backlinks from affiliaters, which is not supposed to be counted as backlinks either...).

    So, now I'm worried that my main site(PR4 also) would be considered as a spam site. So far both are indexed and the site with "no index" actually does not show up on the search result(my main one does) , so it's good so far.

    However, should I be worried?
    Is it normal? What should I do now?

    Any advice would be appreciated.
     
    brighthope, May 5, 2009 IP
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    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    Hopefully you are aware that it is "noindex,nofollow" and NOT "no index,no follow". If not that might explain how it got indexed.
     
    Canonical, May 5, 2009 IP
  3. brighthope

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    I know that, I didn't remember the right tag off the top of my head and it's witten like that. But as I wrote I'm sure that it's not the tag problem. Thanks.
     
    brighthope, May 5, 2009 IP
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    if the web page is live the its will index by google.. so better is work with robot.txt in it can specfiy any page or dir not index
     
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    I agree on using a robot.txt that will prohibit google and yahoo from indexing your site
     
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    If your page was already indexed by Google when you added the <meta> noindex, you can request a URL removal via Google's webmaster tools and you should be fixed after a week or so. The <meta> noindex will prevent it from being indexed again.
     
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    Thanks all, I'll use the robot.txt and also request url removal.
     
    brighthope, May 6, 2009 IP