Wondering once you page has been indexed by google, can you remove the robots meta tag. if done so, will the page still remain within googles directory

Seeing how the robots meta tag is not required to be indexed in the first place, it will make absolutely no difference.

The site will still remain in Google until Google crawls your site again. Then you will drop.
Why would you want to remove the meta tags anyway?

You can safely ignore the "advice" in post #3. It is completely wrong

Originally Posted by erase

The site will still remain in Google until Google crawls your site again. Then you will drop.
Why would you want to remove the meta tags anyway?

This meta tag, like ALL meta tags have no impact on indexing...or anything else for that matter.

Originally Posted by kline11

This meta tag, like ALL meta tags have no impact on indexing...or anything else for that matter.

Well, unless you don't want your page indexed, or don't want your links on a page followed. All the search engines obey the:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

request. Also possible is:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">

and

<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">

however

 <meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

would be pointless since that is the default for all pages.

Originally Posted by wayfarer07

Well, unless you don't want your page indexed, or don't want your links on a page followed. All the search engines obey the:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

request. Also possible is:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">

and

<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">

however

 <meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

would be pointless since that is the default for all pages.

He was referring to removing the robots meta tag, and I'm assumming he had index,follow which is the default. I do stand corrected with noindex, nofollow not being ignored, however...I just wasn't thinking...and life goes on.

chrishirst is right. Removing the robots meta tag does not affect the result. For sure.

Originally Posted by erase

The site will still remain in Google until Google crawls your site again. Then you will drop.
Why would you want to remove the meta tags anyway?

Wow! Amazing how many people have no clue what they are talking about. This is why people trying to learn SEO should avoid forums until they have a good foundation in SEO concepts and terminology... so they can tell those who "know" SEO from those that have no clue what they are talking about. Fortunately, chrishirst is around most of the time to call BS on those who don't know what they are talking about.

The <meta name="robots"> element has a default "contents=" value of "index, follow, archive". So if you NEVER had a meta robots element in your page, the search engines assume you mean <meta name="robots" content="index, follow, archive">. You can safely remove it as long as you want the page to be indexed, have all of its outbound links followed, and be archived.

Originally Posted by Social-Media

Wow! Amazing how many people have no clue what they are talking about.

Hang around here long enough, and you will stop being surprised by it.

did you think this will harm you,removing meta tags after indexing.

sure it can be. google still index you site until the next time it goes back to crawl. you may change title and google can update for a short time.

If you dont have robots file then also google will index your pages and it will not do any thing if you will do as you said above.

Meta tags have no effect in indexing or de-indexing a page. You must have unique content and quality back links to your site.

It could be dengerous in next crawling of google.

Originally Posted by pageupseo

It could be dengerous in next crawling of google.

Totaly! Totally! Wrong!

Ok...

Heres the post to end all posts on this subject.

Assuming you had:
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
Then removing it will make ZERO! difference!
The above meta example tells the SE to do whatever it feels like doing ( unless guided by a robots.txt )

Removing the meta for this will simply mean the SE will continue to do anything it wants.

Putting a sign up in a toilet saying "Its ok to use this toilet" will give you the same result as not having the sign up.

People will still use it.

-G

It doesn't makes any difference, they keep on crawling and updating their database continuously.

Originally Posted by erase

The site will still remain in Google until Google crawls your site again. Then you will drop.
Why would you want to remove the meta tags anyway?

Originally Posted by chrishirst

You can safely ignore the "advice" in post #3. It is completely wrong

Lol! I agree.