We asked, you answered: Should Google add noindex support to robots.txt? Poll results
In total, 84% of the 87 respondents said “yes,” they would like this feature.
Eric Enge is President of Pilot Holding. Previously, Eric was the founder and CEO of Stone Temple, an award-winning digital marketing agency, which was acquired by Perficient in July 2018. He is the lead co-author of The Art of SEO, a 900+ page book that’s known in the industry as “the bible of SEO.” In 2016, Enge was awarded Search Engine Land’s Landy Award for Search Marketer of the Year, and US Search Awards Search Personality of the Year. He is a prolific writer, researcher, teacher and a sought-after keynote speaker and panelist at major industry conferences.
In total, 84% of the 87 respondents said “yes,” they would like this feature.
Eric Enge | Oct 5, 2021 at 9:47 am ET"I'd like to avoid adding more directives. I'm still not aware of common issues caused by this documented functionality," said John Mueller.
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Eric Enge | Nov 2, 2018 at 11:38 am ETSearch has come a long way and, in a keynote talk Wednesday, Christi Olson and Frederic Dubut painted a picture of what the future might hold.
Eric Enge | Oct 26, 2018 at 6:29 pm ETIn Google's mind, does brand authority trump breadth and depth of content? Here's a new perspective connecting the dots between three significant algorithm updates.
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Eric Enge | Sep 7, 2018 at 2:00 pm ETContributor and SMXpert Eric Enge recaps the opening keynote and big announcement by Bing's Fabrice Canel at SMX Advanced 2018.
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Eric Enge | Jun 22, 2018 at 11:00 am ETIf you couldn't attend SMX Advanced, have no fear. Contributor Eric Enge outlines one of the more controversial sessions and reports on what the three speakers shared on the topic of SEO ranking factors.
Eric Enge | Jun 18, 2018 at 12:35 pm ETContributor Eric Enge shares guidelines and handy workarounds you can follow to avoid indexing 'too many' faceted navigation pages.
Eric Enge | May 22, 2018 at 12:23 pm ETContributor Eric Enge recaps the controversial takeaways and interesting marketing tips from the SEO Ranking Factors session at SMX West.
Eric Enge | Mar 22, 2018 at 9:39 am ETContributor Eric Enge recaps an advanced-level SEO session on the role voice search and personal assistants can play in content discovery and conversions.
Eric Enge | Mar 20, 2018 at 10:59 am ETContributor Eric Enge shows us how to determine if a webpage is relevant for the keywords it targets and what do to when it falls flat.
Eric Enge | Feb 27, 2018 at 10:47 am ETContributor Eric Enge offers an insightful case study on the positive effects SEO-focused content created by local influencers can have on driving targeted traffic.
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Eric Enge | Jan 2, 2018 at 9:53 am ETHave questions about Google's stance on organic rankings? On featured snippets? On the mobile-first algorithm? Get answers in contributor Eric Enge's recap of this informative session at Search Engine Land's recent conference.
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