Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
What you have here is two different things: organic search and paid search. The former is very much impacted by the noindex, nofollow directive. The latter is not. Here's what the meta tag would look like on your website: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> Noindex tells search engines that the page should not be in the organic index. Nofollow tells them not to follow any links on the page. The directive concerns any crawler specified in the "name" attribute. (In the above case, to all known and legitimate ones.) Most likely, the agency set this tag on your site to keep it from being indexed while they made changes, and forgot to remove it. That's on them. What you want by...
Full answer by Henry Visotski: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/143433 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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