If it helps, one example case is my client Felted Sky.
Code added to theme:
{% if page_title contains ‘Instruction Video’ %}
{% endif %}
Current results: The noindex code is appearing via Chrome’s inspect tool, but the pages are still appearing on site search. At this moment, 40 pages appear in the index for the search term “instruction video”
https://feltedsky.com/search?q=%22instruction+video%22
Desired result: 0 pages should appear for that term
For those interested: It’s ok for people to stumble upon these pages, but we’d prefer for the pages not to be indexed. Links to these pages are provided to people who purchased the product. We want to make it easy for people to get to once they have the link (so prefer not to put the information behind a password or login)…we just don’t want the pages indexed or quickly found via a search on our site. And, to preempt those who feel differently, we know that it is a better buyer experience if they can search for the page anytime…but we don’t want finding that page to be that easy. I hope this makes sense.