The woes of the web designer

[telophase]

Google: You want to stop robots indexing your site? Disallow them in robots.txt!
Also Google: That won't stop us from indexing your those pages, of course, and complaining when they don't meet our standards.

Google: But remove them from robots.txt and put a noindex meta tag in the header and it'll stop us!
Also Google: runs validate fix function Nope, sorry, those pages with the noindex meta tag still don't meet our standards.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

one begins to suspect that the desire not to be indexed by Google does not meet Google standards

[telophase]

*shocked pikachu face*