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Getting outdated sub-pages out of the index.

Is this correct

         

a1call

5:34 am on Jul 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hi,
I have a whole lot of old sub-pages in the Google index.
I want to get them out by a robots meta tag.
Would including:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
in the head section of each and everyone of the old pages achieve this without affecting my new pages in the index?
Is the syntax correct?

Thanks for the help in advance

Mike12345

1:10 pm on Jul 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Yep that syntax looks correct.

but if you want them to show in other indexes, like other SE's etc then use the following to exclude only google.

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

greenfrog

5:02 pm on Jul 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hey A1,

Yes your code looks correct, I just used it and it worked great. Google spidered my unwanted pages, and dropped them from the index.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

a1call

8:17 pm on Jul 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi Mike12345,
Hi greenfrog,

Thanks for the confirmation. I decided to go with:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">
I do not want them indexed anywhere as they are outdated.
Thanks again