Tags showing up in Google

[ttb]

Yesterday a user pointed out to me that Tags were being indexed in Google search results and that was not a good idea. I went into my Yoast settings and checked the "nofollow, index" in my Taxanomies, but when checking the source code for no follow, I found nothing.

So instead, I went into the robot.txt and disallowed /tag/

Is that ok? or is that a bad idea? The site is The Tech Block for anyone interested in looking.

[NakulGoyal]

It should be a noindex. You don't want them to appear, right ? In that case, it's best to do a noindex. However, since you have already done a robots.txt disallow, the bots won't be able to read the pages any more (most of the bots). So your solution will work, it's more like a brute force method, but will work.

The right way is to do a noindex.

[ttb]

Thanks for your response Nakul. For some reason though when those boxes are checked it still isn't showing "noindex" in the source code. Why could that be?

http://d.pr/i/VdJU

[irvingw]

well i would not do the robots.txt because you still want the pages to be crawled for better indexing of your post pages and the robots.txt blocks the bots from crawling in addition to indexing, you want crawling just not indexing.

Are you sure it's not in your search code, sometimes it populates in an unexpected place in your template - do a find command for "noindex"

[ttb]

If you guys wouldn't mind doing me this favor...

Go here: http://thetechblock.com/tag/microsoft

and search the source code for "noindex"

I'm not seeing it.... or am I doing this wrong?

[ttb]

Anyone know the answer to this?