: Product detail pages aren't being indexed because category listing pages have noindex,follow I have page with list of products and product details pages. list page must be invisible in google

@Becky754

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I have page with list of products and product details pages. list page must be invisible in google search results and product details must be visible in google search result. I have the following meta tag added to the product list page, but nothing is indexed.

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,FOLLOW">



Google’s John Mueller said that the ‘noindex,follow’ command in the
meta tags of a web page will eventually be interpreted as a
‘noindex,nofollow’ command.

That is not surprising. If Google does not index a page, it cannot
follow the links on the page. Here’s John Mueller’s statement:

“It’s tricky with noindex, which I think is something of a
misconception in general within the SEO community. With a noindex and
follow it’s still the case that we see the noindex. In the first step
we say ‘okay you don’t want this page shown in the search results’.
We’ll still keep it in our index, we just won’t show it and then we
can follow those links.

If we see the noindex there for longer than we think this page really
doesn’t want to be used in search so we will remove it completely. And
then we won’t follow the links anyway. So noindex and follow is
essentially the same as a noindex, nofollow. There’s no really big
difference there in the long run.” see more

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