Update on Google Showing Excluded URLs as Sitelinks
A little over a month ago, I wrote about Google showing robots-excluded URLs as Sitelinks. Here's a shot of what Google showed for the query [seo speedwagon] in mid-March:
The ip login link was (and is) excluded via robots.txt. A month prior (in February), a link to one of our monthly archives -- a page with the robots "noindex" meta tag -- appeared as a Sitelink also.
Since then, the SERP has been cleaned up. I use the passive voice because I don't exactly know who to thank. Either the algo picked it up on its own, or someone hand-washed it. Either way, it looks better now:
I'm not sure if we're an isolated case, so if you have any examples of excluded URLs still showing up in Sitelinks, please let us know in the comments.