Meta NOINDEX... how long before Google drops dupe pages?
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Hi,
I have a lot of near dupe content caused by URL params - so I have applied:
How long will it take for this to take effect? It's been over a week now, I have done some removal with GWT removal tool, but still no major indexed pages dropped.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ben
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In his case - he wants to get rid of some duplicate content only.
I see what you mean but if he is not in the situation listed in http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1269119 then it might be the best bet / fastest bet.
For me personally it worked so far very well - if no robots.txt is used as that won't help on the long run as the removal tool has an expiration date of several months.
The down side of the removal tools is the same expiration date - as if you change your mind you will have some issues getting the page sinto the index.
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You know that I think you are the bees knees, but I am going to have to disagree on this one. Even Google does not recommend using the removal rool for this application.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1269119
Still pals?
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There are several things that you can do to get Google to crawl your site (or your new content) quicker and more often. You should be doing all of these, but in case you're not, here is the list.
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Create a Sitemap and submit it through Web Master Tools
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Install Google Analytics
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Create social accounts/update your social accounts
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Fetch as Google Webmaster tools
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Update your content more often (to get Google to crawl your site more frequently).
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Adjust the crawl speed on Google Webmaster tools.
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Check crawl errors on Google Webmaster tools. Are there sever side errors (500)?
I hope that helps!
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Hi,
The best bet is the removal tool from GWT - this is the fastes way.
If your pages are static and google bot is visiting those pages once a month or once 4-5-6 months - you will need to wait until google bot is visiting those pages again, notice the nofollow and drop those from the index.
I'v e seen cases with 6 months.
Anyway you will probably see those pages drop step by step.
What you can try, although is not very straight forward is to build an xml sitemap only with those files and submit it via GWMt - sometimes google bot will think that something new happen and will visit those pages, see the no index and speed the process - but not always as I've seen in some cases that this didn't work - in some cases it did.
Again, the best bet will be the GWMT removal tool.
Cheers.
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