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m0rph3us · 10-26-2001, 12:21 PM

I already have a site that has been indexed by the search engines and it's got ok placement. I want however to make some changes to the HTML of the site that might screw up its ranking if it's recrawled by the bots.

If i add the META ROBOTS = noindex,nofollow tag, then obviously the robot won't crawl it again. My question is, if google's bot sees that tag does it:

(a)just ignores the new page BUT it still keeps the old page in the google.com index with its current ranking?

or

(b) just ignores the page but since the owner doesn't want the page reindexed it removes it completely from the google.com engine and will not come up when doing searches?

Thanks in advance.

10-26-2001, 12:21 PM
m0rph3us Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Principality of Sealand Posts: 2,033	SE Question I already have a site that has been indexed by the search engines and it's got ok placement. I want however to make some changes to the HTML of the site that might screw up its ranking if it's recrawled by the bots. If i add the META ROBOTS = noindex,nofollow tag, then obviously the robot won't crawl it again. My question is, if google's bot sees that tag does it: (a)just ignores the new page BUT it still keeps the old page in the google.com index with its current ranking? or (b) just ignores the page but since the owner doesn't want the page reindexed it removes it completely from the google.com engine and will not come up when doing searches? Thanks in advance.