New spam guidance says to noindex or block crawling on pages made for sharing. Google’s docs say a URL blocked in robots.txt can be indexed.
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Google updated spam guidance advising noindex or blocking crawling on shareable pages; Google docs say blocked URLs can still be indexed; article posted on Search Engine Journal.
The article presents the guidance as a new recommendation, notes a discrepancy with existing docs, and cites Search Engine Journal as source.
To inform SEO professionals about the updated guidance, clarify confusion over robots.txt indexing, and highlight the discrepancy between guidance and docs.
- Details of the guidance, examples of shareable pages, reasoning behind the recommendation, official statements from Google, potential impact on SEO