Kenichi Suzuki requested Google’s John Mueller an search engine optimisation query that obtained an attention-grabbing response. The query was “I am interested in this thread. If web page A has noindex and rel=canonical pointing to Web page B, are the indicators of A transferred to B?” John replied, “I do not assume that is outlined.”

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I do not assume that is outlined.

— 🐝 johnmu.xml (private) 🐝 (@JohnMu) Could 26, 2022

You’d assume the reply could be one thing Google has outlined? I imply, you’d assume a noindex on web page A that has a canonical to web page B, wouldn’t cross indicators? I imply, does not Google should index the web page to see the canonical after which it additionally has to index the web page to see the noindex. However nonetheless, would not that cancel out all the pieces?

I suppose it relies on different components. Possibly typically google will cross the indicators on these pages and typically not?

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