# Google complaining – Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 5, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-complaining-indexed-though-blocked-by-robots-txt/96408 "2018-09-05T12:09:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-complaining-indexed-though-blocked-by-robots-txt/96408/2 "2018-09-06T02:02:41Z")

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This one is odd @codinghorror we saw the same thing with Bing on the user pages, should we just add that magic noindex meta tag here to double ensure user pages do not sneak in to indexes?

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