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    GWT Malware notification for meta noindex'ed pages ?

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    • Saijo.George
      Saijo.George last edited by

      I was wondering if GWT will send me Malware notification for pages that are tagged with meta noindex ?

      EG: I have a site with pages like

      example.com/indexed/content-1.html
      example.com/indexed/content-2.html
      example.com/indexed/content-3.html
      ....
      example.com/not-indexed/content-1.html
      example.com/not-indexed/content-2.html
      example.com/not-indexed/content-3.html
      ....

      Here all the pages like the ones below, are tagged with meta noindex and does not show up in search.
      example.com/not-indexed/content-1.html
      example.com/not-indexed/content-2.html
      example.com/not-indexed/content-3.html

      Now one fine day example.com/not-indexed/content-2.html page on the site gets hacked and starts to serve malware, none of the other pages are affected .. Will GWT send me a warning for this ?

      What if the pages are blocked by Robots.txt instead of meta noindex ?

      Regard
      Saijo

      UPDATE hope this helps someone else : https://plus.google.com/u/0/109548904802332365989/posts/4m17sUtPyUS

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      • MoosaHemani
        MoosaHemani last edited by

        I never witnessed this myself but a simple logic makes me think that it will! The pages are no indexed and Google cannot crawl in search engines but visitors can see it and can get hurt by the page!

        People usually use no-indexed pages for their PPC campaign... suppose if you are using this page for PPC ad so end user will get affected using the Google service and Google will never like it so yes no matter if you noindex the page if malware is the case Google will indicate that on your website.

        Just a thought!

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        • Saijo.George
          Saijo.George @MoosaHemani last edited by

          Thanks for sharing your views Moosa.

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