Quality link not indexed after two months

[Blink-SEO]

Hi! Bit of an odd one, but I thought I's ask. Recently I wrote an article for Smashing Mag. It's was a great success and not really an SEO exercise at all, but after several weeks my author page hasn't been indexed (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/author/sam-wright/?rel=author). I just assumed give the quality of the site that it wouldn't take that long.

I know it's just a case of leaving it, by any thoughts on why its not been picked up?

[FedeEinhorn]

Ohhh, this was an easy one

Look at the page HTML, they have a robots no index tag on author pages so search engines won't index ANY author page but they do index your articles.

[Blink-SEO]

Ah yes. I didn't check as some author pages are indexed. Eg http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/author/heydon-pickering/.

Very odd, but explained!

[FedeEinhorn]

Hmm think I got it.

Authors listed in the www subdomain are not indexed, while authors listed in specific categories (coding, mobile, etc) are.

I guess at some point they decided to deindex authors but forgot about those, or the other way around...

[anthonydnelson]

As others have said, they have the NoIndex, Follow tag on the author page. So, this particular page won't appear in Google's index but Google will crawl the site and follow the links to your website listed on your page. No worries here, good link.

[Blink-SEO]

Thanks all. The page is now being indexed.