Google Bot Noindex

[MayflyInternet]

If a site has the tag, can it still be flagged for duplicate content?

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Do you mean from a penalty point of view?

Google can still crawl and see what is on a page with a noindex flag, but it just won't index it. It doesn't guarantee that duplicate content won't still be an issue for you. This is one of those areas when it comes to Panda that people try. Some just noindex pages and have success with them, others need to remove them altogether.

-Andy

[MayflyInternet]

Cheers for the response Andy.

I do mean from a penalty point of view.

Can I block Google from crawling the site using the htaccess or robots.txt files?

I want the page to be indexed in all search engines but Google

I'm just experimenting and I don't mind whether the site with the duplicated content gets a penalty, but I would very much mind if the site whether the original content came from was given a penalty.

Will

[Andy.Drinkwater]

You can prevent Google from crawling the site through the robots.txt rather than the .htaccess Will.

-Andy