A page can have a link to it, and still not be indexed, so I disagree with you on that.

But thanks for using the domain name.  That will teach me to use a URL shortener...

Hm, that is interesting.  So you're saying that it will get crawled, and thus will eventually become deindexed (as noindex is part of the content="none" directive), but since it's a dead end page, it just takes an extra long time for that particular page to get crawled?

Ok, so, nofollow is stopping the page from being read at all?  I thought that nofollow just means the links on the page will not be followed.  Is meta nofollow essentially the same as blocking a page in robots.txt?

We have thousands of pages we're trying to have de-indexed in Google for months now.  They've all got . But they simply will not go away in the SERPs.

Here is just one example....

http://bitly.com/VutCFiIf you search this URL in Google, you will see that it is indexed, yet it's had  for many months.  This is just one example for thousands of pages, that will not get de-indexed.  Am I missing something here?  Does it have to do with using content="none" instead of content="noindex, follow"?

Any help is very much appreciated.