But then all of those pages, I guess, end up being clustered together and probably across multiple sites, right? Allan confirmed and said Gary Illyes from Google has been working on this here and ...

Google's John Mueller's response on phantom noindex errors in Search Console acknowledges indexing blocks visible to Google.

If you’re reading this, you’ve likely encountered the “Crawled – Currently Not Indexed” error in Google Search Console. Of the 213 Google Search Console ...

Soft errors are bad because:" The limited "crawl budget" spent on them could've been spent on real pages. The pages will unlikely to show up in search because during indexing they're filtered out, ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about a seemingly false ‘noindex detected in X-Robots-Tag HTTP header’ error reported in Google Search ...