You said Devs
said "No" to noindexing given pages, right? It's too bad we
can't make a template for all BLPs that injects noindex...
That seems a bit pointless to me: either we want people to find an article
or we don't. If we don't, I have a better solution: delete it. If we do,
why not let the search engines index it?
Stable versioning has been imminent for a long time now. Perhaps when
it is operational indexing should only apply to stable versions.
Ec