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incrediBILL - 6:47 am on Nov 28, 2012 (gmt 0)


If you don't want Google reading a page, block it in robots.txt, not with NOINDEX.

If you fear Google will attempt to read the page anyway, there are scripts that enforce robots.txt and physically block the spider from crawling where it's not permitted in robots.txt

If Google still gets the page after all that, they are crawling as something other than Googlebot.


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