Which instruction will follow the googlebot?

[Jason_Clark]

if i post a blog on my website and the blog i disallow from robots.txt of my website, but, do not Noindex it from meta tags and link this blog to a high authority website for fast crawling of robots(googlebot) and suppose the crawler first crawled on that blog and then robots.txt files. Now, what will happen? which instruction googlebot follow first, robots.txt or blog(which has no instruction passes in meta tags) ?

[TechnoBear]

Does this answer your question?

@Google

You should not use robots.txt as a means to hide your web pages from Google Search results. This is because other pages might point to your page, and your page could get indexed that way, avoiding the robots.txt file. If you want to block your page from search results, use another method such as password protection or noindex tags or directives.

Robots.txt Introduction and Guide | Google Search Central  | ...

I have to say, though, that this makes no sense to me:

[quote=“Jason_Clark, post:1, topic:212297”]
i disallow from robots.txt of my website, but, do not Noindex it from meta tags and link this blog to a high authority website for fast crawling of robots(googlebot)
[/quote]Why would you disallow a page/section, and then link to it “for fast crawling”?

[Mittineague]

@TechnoBear

I have to say, though, that this makes no sense to me:

That is confusing. It took me a few reads to even get what it might be meaning.

I think the keywords here are “hiding” and “URL”.

That is, say I want none of my pages in the /private folder to be known to Google (aka “cloaked”).
So I add that folder to my robots.txt file
Google comes to my site and won’t crawl or index the content blocked by robots.txt

But on another site, someone posts a link to /private/stolen-content.html

Google will not index the stolen-content.html page - BUT - Google will index the page that has the link to that file so the page can still be discovered and is not “hidden”