What is Noindex?
Also called: Meta robots
The short answer
Noindex is an instruction, set in a meta tag or HTTP header, that tells search engines not to show a page in their results.
Noindex, explained
Use it for thin, duplicate or private pages such as internal search results, carts and thank-you pages.
Questions people ask about Noindex
What is Noindex?
Noindex is an instruction, set in a meta tag or HTTP header, that tells search engines not to show a page in their results.
Related terms
robots.txt is a file at a site's root that tells crawlers which paths they may or may not crawl, and where the sitemap is.
IndexingIndexing is when a search engine stores a crawled page in its database so it can appear in results; a page that is not indexed cannot rank.
SEOSEO is the practice of making a website easier for search engines to crawl, understand and rank, so it appears for the searches its audience actually makes.
KeywordA keyword is a word or phrase people type into a search engine; SEO matches pages to the keywords their audience uses.
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