diff --git a/aio/src/app/layout/doc-viewer/doc-viewer.component.ts b/aio/src/app/layout/doc-viewer/doc-viewer.component.ts
index cd02e38dbe..35c42837bb 100644
--- a/aio/src/app/layout/doc-viewer/doc-viewer.component.ts
+++ b/aio/src/app/layout/doc-viewer/doc-viewer.component.ts
@@ -156,12 +156,6 @@ export class DocViewerComponent implements OnDestroy {
    * Tell search engine crawlers whether to index this page
    */
   private setNoIndex(val: boolean) {
-    if (val) {
-
-      this.metaService.addTag({ name: 'robots', content: 'noindex' });
-    } else {
-      this.metaService.removeTag('name="robots"');
-    }
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/aio/src/index.html b/aio/src/index.html
index 51e4cfbc52..f1e58a8a38 100644
--- a/aio/src/index.html
+++ b/aio/src/index.html
@@ -31,12 +31,6 @@
   <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
   <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="translucent">
 
-  <script>
-    // Dynamically, pre-emptively, add `noindex`, which will be removed when the doc is ready and valid
-    tag = document.createElement('meta'); tag.name = 'robots'; tag.content = 'noindex';
-    document.head.appendChild(tag);
-  </script>
-
   <!-- Google Analytics -->
   <script>
   // Note this is a customised version of the GA tracking snippet