Will disallowing in robots.txt noindex a page?

[Brocberry]

Google has indexed a page I wish to remove. I would like to meta noindex but the CMS isn't allowing me too right now. A suggestion o disallow in robots.txt would simply stop them crawling I expect or is it also an instruction to noindex? Thanks

[Unity]

It the page has already been indexed and you block via robots.txt file what you will most likely see in SERPs is a listing with no meta description (so just one line). I do believe that ranking placements will drop. If you want to remove from SERPs completely you need to use the noindex tag.

I would block by robots.txt file now while you work out how to add the noindex tag.

[NakulGoyal]

You'd have to add the disallow in robots.txt and then go into the Google Webmaster Console, use the Remove URLs option to get Google to deindex that page.

From Google:

Use **robots.txt **to specify how search engines should crawl your site, or request **removal **of URLs from Google's search results ( have you read our removal requirements? ). Only site owners and users with full permissions can request removals.

[Zachary_Russell]

Check out this article, it's the Google Requirements for Removing content

There are multiple ways to do this:

Ideally, robots.txt is the way to go, you can also noindex the page. There is no need to do both. If your looking for the page to disappear as well, i'd let it 404.

Another option is to request the URL to be removal request in Google Webmaster Tools along with these things it's under optimization>Remove URLs.

Hope this helps

[Zachary_Russell]

Good answer we both submitted this at the same time.

[FranckNlemba]

Hi

I would also suggest to make sure to change internal links if possible and make them point to the page you want to see in the index