Google’s John Mueller recently answered a question about phantom noindex errors reported in Google Search Console. Mueller asserted that these reports may be real.
Noindex In Google Search Console
A noindex robots directive is one of the few commands that Google must obey, one of the few ways that a site owner can exercise control over Googlebot, Google’s indexer.
And yet it’s not totally uncommon for search console to report being unable to index a page because of a noindex directive that seemingly does not have a noindex directive on it, at…

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