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Hi Nathan, If you have no-indexed your pages, it is perfectly normal to then see no-index flags. They aren't necessarily an issue if you are expecting them to be there. Cheers, Andy

No, it's called a change in search behavior and we haven't noticed in travel, not anything that comes close to an algorithm update.

Hi Nathan, You are right. There was a broad algorithm update. Google made it official with a tweet: https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1216752087515586560 Yet, I haven't seen any change in my webs nor any comment from my colleagues about big changes. Hope there is nothing to worry about. Best of luck to all of us. Cheers, Gaston

Yeah that's pretty much overkill. "No-follow" isn't actually named very well as it doesn't prevent users or search engines from 'following' a hyperlink. I know, it was named really badly! In fact many people feel it's not even a directive to stop links from being 'followed' (or visited) What the no-follow tag is commonly used for these days is to denote the difference between editorial and advertorial hyperlinks. It's only really an issue with external links, rather than internal ones. If you have placed content on another site (and you paid for it, like a sponsored post) with a link pointing back to your own site (to try and get referral traffic), the 'no-follow' tag lets Google know that the link is advertorial in nature and thus should not pass PageRank to the receiving domain / web-page Because of this a lot of people believe that if you no-follow a link, it doesn't vent or lose any PageRank. This is false. If a link is default ('followed'), then an amount of PageRank will be lost from the linking page and donated to the receiving page. If a link is 'no-followed', the PageRank will still be lost by the linking page but the receiving page just won't get anything (so it gets vented into cyberspace). This is to stop "PageRank sculpting" using no-follow links from being a viable SEO manipulation tactic As such, all no-following your duplicate internal links will do is vent tiny chunks of SEO authority without them then being appended to other pages on your site (so little bits of authority just get lost from your website's ecosystem) It's not a huge problem that you should freak out about, in-fact the noticeable difference in performance via either implementation (I would guess) would be negligible to totally unnoticeable But still - why chip away at yourself right? That's what your competitors are there for

Hey there! Thanks for reaching out to us! Would you be able to write in to help@moz.com so we can take a look at your account. Look forward to hearing from you! Eli

Users have been begging for this functionality for many, many years and It's been recognised and promised as a "highest priority" many times, but nothing's ever come if it, unfortunately, I'd recommend assuming it will never be provided. (And yea, this has been a sore point for a lot of users). Paul

Hey Nathan, Thanks for reaching out to us Would you be able to write into us at help@moz.com with your business name + address so that we can investigate into this further. Looking forward to hearing from you, Eli

Thanks, That is a great response Roman, I'll go through those links and study them.

Turns out the format of the robots.txt file needed to be listed as UTF8 in my .htaccess file. All working now. That was a wasted week playing with security etc but I have to give it to the MOZ CS. they didn't give up.