Why doesn't Meta Robots work? It's been two weeks already.

[atlantis76]

Hi all

I wanted to take several pages off G's listings, so I added them:

<meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

In the header.

Two weeks last, these pages are still listed on Google.

I must have missed something fundamental.Can you please advise?

Oh, and same for Robots.txt: some other pages I requested to drop from the listings, are still listed, after I explicitly asked to remove them by using robots.txt.

Thanks a lot in advance! :)
Assaf

[tedster]

Once the robots meta tag is on your pages, you can speed up removal by using the url removal request in your Webmaster Tools account. Otherwise removal of an already indexed page can be very slow.

[atlantis76]

Thanks tedster
How slow approx?

Assaf

[tedster]

It depends on how frequently that url gets spidered in the normal spidering cycle.

Some urls on some sites only get spidered once in a very rare while - maybe every 6 weeks or even longer. That's why it can be valuable to speed things up with a url removal request.