Google index flooded with New posts

[tmuikku]

Hi,

was searching the forum with Google and the results seems to be unusable due to New posts -feed being indexed. This hasn't been a problem before.

Please add noindex to New posts -feed, thanks!

 

[Jason]

I just tried this and don't get the same results - is this still happening for you?

 

[Pano]

Not happening for me, either.

 

[Ultima Thule]

Doing a Google search with the string given in #1 I get a lots of New Posts links to:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/whats-new/posts/******/
where the '******' are old update ID's, ie. outdated links that doesn't bring forth the indexed post.

Looking at robots.txt file there's no particular restrictions added:
https://www.diyaudio.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/sitemap.xml

Another link that probably shouldn't be updated is:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/

I guess it's, either update the robots.txt ,
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/robots_txt?csw=1

...or add individual noindex <meta> tags in the HTML header to those two constantly updating New Posts pages.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/block-indexing
by adding the:
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”>
but because Google and probably other crawlers have already indexed these two pages, one can also make them de-index with the following line:
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”>

See also:
https://www.ilfusion.com/how-to-prevent-google-from-indexing-certain-web-pages