Glossary · Indexing and discovery

noindex

An instruction to keep a page out of search results, sent as a header or a meta tag. A crawler obeys either, so setting it in one place and not the other still removes the page.

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Indexing and discovery

Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.

index coverage · canonical · X-Robots-Tag · orphan page · E-E-A-T · E-E-A-T proxies · topical authority · Soft 404 · case consistency · accessibility structure · landmark region · accessible name · skip link · main landmark · alt attribute · form control name · duplicate id · IndexNow · faceted navigation

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