Should search results be indexed?
No, your website’s own search results pages should not be indexed by Google and other search engines in most cases. Long-standing search-engine-optimization wisdom says the results pages from your site-search should block search engine bots and not be included in a search engine’s index of pages.
Are NoIndex pages still crawled?
Any page with the noindex directive won’t go into a search engine’s index, meaning that it won’t show up in any search engine results’ pages. When you add a nofollow tag to a web page, it disallows search engines from being able to crawl any of the links on the page.
Why are products not indexed in Google index?
Especially on e-commerce sites, it appears that Google checks to see the availability of a particular product. If it determines that a product is not available, it proceeds to exclude that product from the index. This makes sense from a UX perspective as Google might not want to include content in the index that users aren’t able to purchase.
Which is pages should I noindex or nofollow?
Seeing that most blogs have one or two authors, the author page is almost the same as the blog homepage. The content will be duplicated if you show these two kinds of pages on search results. You need to noindex them to avoid this circumstance. Custom post types like products on WooCommerce have thin or low-quality content.
What happens if Google sees a noindex tag?
The only corner case is that if Google sees a link to a page A but doesn’t actually crawl the page, we won’t know that page A has a NOINDEX tag and we might show the page as an uncrawled url.
What does it mean when Google says crawled is not indexed?
The “Crawled —currently not indexed” report is indicating that the content is eligible to appear in Google’s index, but Google is electing not to include it. There also could be other low quality pages to which Google is not applying this logic.