Hey fellow SEO peeps (or should I say nemesises?), Google's John Mueller has confirmed that those pesky phantom no-index errors we see popping up on our screens are actually real deal indexing signals caught by the mighty ol’Googlebot! Crazy, right?! It turns out these sneaky little buggers can show as hidden in Search Console but still be picked up during Google's crawl. So if you thought they were just an optical illusion… think again!! What do y’all make of this one? Is anyone else experiencing similar issues or have any tips to help combat these phantoms from haunting our websites?! Let me know below, curious minds want to learn!
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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-on-phantom-noindex-errors-in-search-console/565225/