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Can't stop Google from indexing pages

using robots.txt, javascript AND meta tag

         

Birdman

2:30 pm on Nov 24, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



It seems I cannot do ANYTHING to Google them from indexing certain pages of sites. These pages are generally "print this page", "send to a friend", etc...

It began when I was working on a site for someone and noticed that there were WAY to many pages indexed in Google. I figured out that it was the "print" and "send friend" links, which appear on most of the site's pages.

To eliminate this problem: I moved the scripts to their own folder, added the folder to robots.txt, added the meta robots tag, and used javascript to link to them.

Now, G has relisted every single page with it's new URL! They now have no description or title, just the URL. I figure this is because they actually obeyed the robots file, but I don't want the links indexed at all.

Can anyone explain this? Thanks!

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

User-agent: *
Disallow: /print/
Disallow: /dev/send_friend
Disallow: /dev/property_detail_print

submitx

12:19 pm on Nov 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I had a problem like that once. I think it is a glitch on Google's part. Email webmaster@google.com.