"No Index" Extensions

[iBags]

Hi there,

We run an e-commerce website and we are aware of our duplicate page content/title problems. We know about the "rel canonical" tag and the "no index" tag but I am more interested in the latter. We use a CMS called Magento. Now, Magento has an extension that allows you to use the "no follow" and "no index" tag on products.

Google has indexed many of our pages and I wanted to know if applying the "no index" tag on duplicate pages will instruct Google to remove the duplicate url's it has already indexed. I know the tag will tell Google not to index a page but what if I apply it to a product already indexed?

[vmialik]

Hi Michael,

This process is not always that instantaneous if "no index" is applied, with Google de-indexing. Please refer to these two threads that should give you more idea about the issue and possible solutions to speed up the process of de-indexation:

http://moz.com/community/q/put-no-index-meta-but-still-indexed

http://moz.com/community/q/why-is-google-not-deindexing-pages-with-the-meta-noindex-tag

Let me know if this helps!

[iBags]

Thank you so much. I will definitely take a look at these.

[Asjad]

Hi Michael,

I Strongly recommend you to See this Video : http://moz.com/blog/handling-duplicate-content-across-large-numbers-of-urls

Some great ideas.

thanks