How can I check if the FOLLOW,NOINDEX tag is working?

[inmonova]

Hi everyone!

After reading about pagination practices, a few days ago we introduced the <meta name="robots" content="FOLLOW,NOINDEX" /> tag, to prevent duplicate content.

You can find an example below:

http://www.inmonova.com/en/properties?page=2

I have been checking yahoo site explorer and result pages still get indexed. My question is:

Am I doing something wrong? Is the code incorrect (follow,noindex - noindex,follow)? Or does it just take some time to have effect?

Thanks in advance.

[DanHill]

The code is correct and I see that there are 0 links to that results page - the only thing I can think of is the search engines indexed the page before you added the tag!

[RyanKent]

Daniel is correct. You just need to be more patient.

Websites are crawled in pieces. The crawler can grab 10% of your site each day. It depends upon the popularity of your site, the popularity of the content within your site, how well your site is linked, along with other factors.

You have done all you can for now. You will see your pages start disappearing from search results.

[inmonova]

Thank you very much for your quick responses!

I will wait patiently to see those dulicates drop down

[cbielich]

There are sites out there like http://www.noindexchecker.com/ that will help you double check your work

[Twinbytes]

Excactly what I was looking for.  Thanks.