Sometimes I need to add several updates to my site. To keep it clean I display a maintenance page. The first time I did this it became the main indexed page on google. Therefore I added the meta tag <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> to prevent this. My question is if google comes across this temporary maintenance page he will not index it but does that mean he will never index that page again? or will they index the page again once there is new content?
I would really appreciate if someone could clear this up for me
Google’s crawler will reindex your site once you remove that meta tag (it is constantly updating its indices).
If you’re really paranoid, I’d suggest checking out Google’s Webmaster Tools so that you can directly control the indexing behavior of your site: http://www.google.com/webmasters/