Google: Sometimes Bot Protection Services Serve Noindex Directive

Google: Sometimes Bot Protection Services Serve Noindex Directive

Did you know that sometimes those bot protection services will serve Google and other search engines noindex directives? Google’s John Mueller said this on X, saying, “Sometimes there’s bot-protection (or a login, interstitial, etc) triggering that has a noindex on it.” He also added that it would be better for them to serve 503 server … Read more

Google-Extended Robots Directive Does Not Work For Search Generative Experience

Google-Extended Robots Directive Does Not Work For Search Generative Experience

A couple of weeks ago Google released a new robots.txt directive to tell Google not to use your content for Bard or other AI Google projects – Google-Extended. The Google Search Generative Experience does not currently use Google-Extended, Google told me. That means SGE’s AI-generated answers can and will continue to show unless you block … Read more

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