noindex?

Some of the pages on my site i don't want to get index by google. Pages like contact us and some feature articles because they don't get updated or are published somewhere else before. I have the article republish consent and is only there for the reader not to benefit anyhow from it.

Would i go about puting <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"> in my html page?

 

yes you can but i would like to suggest you to go by webmaster tools.

 

Meta tag is security. Which page do you want index or not. you can use robot.txt. This is helpful.

 

Im still not quite following you, a beginner to SEO. What steps do i have to take so that google doesn't index my page? And if it has how to un-index it but keep the rest?

 

DrAnujGupta's suggestion is correct. You can use robots.txt to tell SEs not to index certain pages.

For example you have a directory yourdomain.com/articles that you don't want SEs to index you can put the following code in your robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /articles

Code (markup):

Be careful with robots.txt or you might end-up getting your website de-indexed.

Ref: http://www.robotstxt.org/
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

I don't like the meta tags approach all that much

 

i agree, robots.txt is the way to go, if you're quite new, here is one definition

Web site owners use the robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.

 

You should have a robots.txt file anyway. This is where you should do this task.