The company tells developers to use the AdWords API until problems are resolved.

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Google announced they will no longer support robots.txt noindex directive The post Google Cancels Support for Robots.txt Noindex via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Google’s John Mueller said something very true on Twitter, he said “Sometimes even posts from 2014 are relevant.” “The date is not the only ranking factor,” he added. But the issue is, the example given is really not the case and that article is really not all that relevant today.

Google’s John Mueller addressed the topic of sites leasing or renting out subdomains off of their main domain and letting third-parties put their content on those subdomains in an effort to rank better in Google and sell more. John didn’t call it spam but did say the search leads at Google are aware of this and have been in discussions about how to handle such efforts.

Changes are coming to how Google understands some of the unsupported directives in your robots.txt file. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…