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Avatar Went Hot: November 14, 2007 - 7:05 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
Update: Googlebot does understand the undocumented Noindex: directive in robots.txt, but Google said it's not (yet) set in stone so be careful when you play with it.

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If you ever need a hot tip on how to waste an hour or two with quite funny but completely useless SEO research, read my divulgement of a new and somewhat mysterious robots.txt statement invented by Google:
Noindex: /
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from igorthetroll 295 days ago #
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Bring anti sea-sickness pills, gets dizzy when you read it.

Fun stuff.

from g1smd 289 days ago #
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Is it just a part of the Robustness Principle in operation at Google?

Maybe they are supporting syntax that they see a lot of people using in error?

from Sebastian 289 days ago #
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Google has confirmed that their crawler understands the Noindex: directive in robots.txt, but it's an experiment so be careful when you play with it:
http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/about-noindex-crawler-directives-in-robots-txt/#comment-710


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