How to verify that a page is properly set to noIndex?

To check whether a page is set to noindex, inspect the directive actually returned for the relevant URL, language and shop.

1. Open the exact public URL of the page.
2. View its page source and find the meta tag whose name attribute is robots.
3. Check that its content attribute includes noindex. For example: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">. nofollow alone does not request removal from the index.

You can also inspect the URL’s metadata with Browseo. A noindex directive in the HTML describes the current instruction; it does not prove that Google has already removed the page from its results.

Google must be able to crawl the page to read the directive: a block in robots.txt can prevent this. If you have access to the Search Console property, distinguish the live URL test from the version known at Google’s last crawl.

See the detailed verification procedure and processing times. No precise deindexing time is guaranteed.