How to verify that a page is correctly set to noIndex?
Check the exact shop URL in the relevant language first. Saving a setting in the module does not by itself confirm the HTML delivered by your theme.
- Open the URL you want to check and view the page source.
- In the
<head>section, find themetatag whosenameattribute isrobots. Itscontentvalue should includenoindexif you have chosen to exclude the page from indexing.
Example of an expected result: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">. You do not need nofollow to prevent indexing: it is a separate setting.
You can also use Browseo to inspect the URL’s metadata. This check does not prove that Google has already removed the page from its results.
If you have access to the property in Google Search Console, inspect the URL and run the live URL test. Check that Google can crawl the page and detects the noindex directive. The indexed version can predate your change.
Important: if robots.txt blocks crawling of this URL, Google cannot read its noindex tag. A rule in the HTML alone does not establish that Google has processed it.
For processing times, see how long Google takes to deindex pages. See also Google’s noindex documentation.