noindex nofollow accidentally in head for 10 hours

Programmer does the unthinkable

[kidder]

To my complete horror I found one of my programmers has slipped a "noindex nofollow" into our header tags over night. I estimate it's been there running site wide maybe 10 hours or so. I removed it but I wonder what if any damage this may cause if Google has crawled? We have new content daily so we get crawled often....

[Bewenched]

Accidentally slipped it in there?!?!?!?!

[kidder]

The instruction to the programmer was to place the tag on a block of pages we don't want crawled or indexed. First thing I check today is exactly what I told the now unemployed programmer not to do - placed the tag in the header so it ran site wide. I took it straight out but who knows what damage has been done, that is what I am more concerned about.

[StickyNote]

Were it me, first thing I would do is look in the logfiles to see how many bots gobbled up the new pages. You may have got lucky...

[kidder]

Googlebot was indeed in and eating up a bunch of pages. It certainly did not crawl the whole site, a few hundred pages maybe. I did'nt want to count them all. I just hope the fallout is not too bad, it's hard enough jumping through hoops for Google with creating problems in house just to confuse the issue..

[nippi]

I am prepared to bet 10 cents, there will be no effect on Google and MSN, perhaps some results on yahoo.

My experience with MSN and Google is they don;t hurry to obey such tags, Yahoo seems to straight away sometimes, other times, it does not.

DOn;t panic, i think the fallout will be minimal, or nothing