Page has Noindex, nofollow, still ranks #1

[JaapWillemDrogisterij]

Hi there,

I have a question about a few pages on our site, whom has a no index, nofollow meta tag but they are still indexed and even rank number one in our market for the term.

How is that possible or is it that Google just ignores the tags when they think it´s an error from our side?

The url is www.drogisterij.net/kilo_killer and the keyword is kilo killer. We rank number 1 if you search from Google.nl

Anyone have seen it before and know why this might be?

Thanks in advance.

[ZDAdmin]

Has the robots.txt file been switched to nofollow recently? was it ever not there?

[PaddyDisplays]

when did you add  <meta name="<a class="attribute-value">robots</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">noindex,nofollow</a>" />, the page was cached on the 30th of may, maybe google has not crawled the page since it has been added.

[Mike_Davis]

How long ago did you add the tag?  Sometimes it takes a while for Googlebot to get back to certain pages especially if they are disconnected from the remainder of your site.

[JaapWillemDrogisterij]

Hi there,

Thank you all for the answers. It seems that someone recently added no index,nofollow on the pages, as they are not in the cached page from Google.

I gonna email some people ...

Have a great day,

Jaap Willem

[Nick_Ker]

It does take some time for Google to remove pages from the index.  You can speed it along a little by using the "Remove URL" link under Optimization in Google's Webmaster tools. You should also disallow the url in your robots.txt file as well, to be on the safe side if you don't want the page to show up in searches.

And there is also Google's page about removal: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=59819