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