If you own a blog for a long time, it could be that some of your old blog posts need to be updated or optimized. Every once in a while, you should go through your archive to check that. When you go through your archive pages, you might see posts with low quality content that you don’t want Google to add to the index temporarily. If you don’t want Google to show certain posts or pages in the search results, you can use the robots meta tag. That’s what this Ask Yoast is about! Frédérique Lavios emailed us this question:
“We have a lot of old blog posts that need to be optimized. For overall website health, should I set these posts to noindex in the robots.txt file?”
Check out the video or read the answer below!
How to noindex a post or page
In the video we explain whether you should use noindex for posts that need an update.
I honestly think you’re mixing up a couple of things here. Noindex is something that you should do on the page and in the robots.txt file you forbid the crawler to come to the page entirely (using the Disallow directive).
So what you should probably do, if you really think that something is low-quality content, is
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14574/ask-yoast-noindex-posts-that-need-an-update-yoast
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/ask-yoast-noindex-posts-that-need-an-update-%e2%80%a2-yoast/
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