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Best practices — Google Search Central
How do you align robots directives with your strategy?
noindex removes a page from results without itself blocking crawling. nofollow addresses how links are treated. The directives serve different purposes and should not be confused.
Further analysis
Use this entry as an audit checkpoint. The cited source establishes the context; the direct answer identifies what to check before choosing an action.
In SFT, this topic relates to Structure. Check whether the signal is visible on the page, connected to the rest of the website and supported by understandable evidence.
Related search terms include meta robots, noindex, nofollow. Use them to describe the issue in a brief, audit or answer page.
Applying SFT
Structure turns a rule into readable architecture: headings, URLs, structured data, visible content and clear hierarchy.