Forum:A reason for NOINDEX not to work?

Hello, coming from MMD wiki.

There are pages that I marked with NOINDEX, only I am seeing no result that it is functioning. I can still see results in search engines four days later, and it didn't create the category "Noindexed pages" automatically. -- Bunai82 (talk) 18:57, November 27, 2011 (UTC)


 * Search engines have a very good memory, I'm afraid. :-( It takes a lot of time to remove pages from their grasp. -- Weas-El ✉  19:37, November 27, 2011 (UTC)
 * Crawlers (the programs indexing and searching through pages) tend to revisit a page between 10 minutes and 30 days depending on the content. If the content is static, usually the revisit is lengthy. If it's a news site, you can have a crawler come back every 10 minutes to get the content indexed. Some long time static pages can also become revisited after 90 days. More info: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?&answer=1061943


 * Is this crawler effecting the Wikia's ability to create a "Noindexed pages" category? -- Bunai82 (talk) 11:55, November 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Is not, sure you have added __NOINDEX__ magic word correctly? – Tm_T@Community Central:&#126;$ 12:13, November 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, See here -- Bunai82 (talk) 21:03, November 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * A crawler is essentially a reader, except it's not human. Also note that because of this, the crawler can index your page whether you put  on it or not - what matters is whether or not the crawler respects whatever that magic word does to the page.


 * Bunai82, I think this is a bug in Wikia's wiki engine. When I looked at the generated HTML source for w:c:mikumikudance:Teto_Kasane_%28Nanami%29 I couldn't find the noindex meta tag or any occurrences of "noindex" anywhere. I would report this problem to w:c:mikumikudance:Special:Contact/bug and tell us what Wikia's reply is. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 6 Dec 2011 6:53 PM Pacific


 * That's not a bug. The magic word  does not work on content pages (main namespace), it only works on non-content namespaces (user, user talk, template and so on). Or else people could add this to pages to make a wiki disappear from search engines. What's the reason for making a content page as noindex? --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 10:34, December 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, I found where it says that NOINDEX is disabled in the article space: NOINDEX magic word section of Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing. Wikipedia recommends using a template that applies NOINDEX and adds the page to a category, so you know what pages use it. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 7 Dec 2011 11:20 AM Pacific


 * The template isn't needed at all, since MediaWiki adds automatically the page to a system category when the magic word is placed on an article. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 20:34, December 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * @Ciencia Al Poder, the creator of the model likes to keep a low profile on their work. So the idea was to do the same for the pages in relation. The model created is available to the public, but at MMD wiki we can't provide a direct location to it.
 * Anyway, thank you for the knowledge about the NOINDEX tag. -- Bunai82 (talk) 22:16, December 7, 2011 (UTC)