When would someone use "noindex, follow" in a robots meta tag?

[agapitoflores001]

Nice question Andy. I have same question as you. Now it has been answered.

[losdecline]

I wonder if exists a noindex abuse. ..Let's say you want to use dup content (from another website of yours) and slap a no-index on those pages, becasue those pages could be of interest anyway..and Let's say the 50% of your pages in your web is no-indexed...Would this cause a penalty or something like that?

[jschwartzhmc]

I use noindex, follow on pages that are intended to be iframed inside another page. I don't want those iframes indexed, but I want all the links in them followed.

[brydendsouza]

I dont understand why did I watch this video

[Webnauts]

I do not understand why should the "follow" directive be included. Doesn't Googlebot follow by default?

[BrightSoul80]

@Webnauts I guess you can't predict what a web crawler will do when it encounters a noindex page. Googlebot might follow its links by default while others might not. I think it's always best to express your intentions explicitly, through code. Leave nothing to chance.

[incrediblehelp]

Whoah now are you suggesting having a lot of internal links on page is considered a little spammy??????????

[bigal21110]

hm are is Matt 200+ internal links on a page could be considered spammy?

[Sander33333]

I use it on error pages and login pages..

[ShawnKHall]

Another example is a "tag" page or other index view of content, either by date or search term. It would be detrimental to have the same content indexed at "-2011-01-whatever-" and "-2011-01-" and "-2011-". The index pages ("-2011-01-" and "-2011-") should still provide access to the content (possibly in an abbreviated form) for users, but should link back to the canonical URL of "-2011-01-whatever-" - resulting in the "real" URL being indexed without stuffing up the works with index pages.

[Hamiltoncameron]

You should of said like a page 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 on a blog.

[IgorHW]

Isn't "follow" default behavior? Is it necessary with "noindex"?

[adithecool]

@IgorHW The default behaviour is "index, follow", which means index the page and follow the links.

[dekoderek]

@IgorHW I think when you put noindex it's also assumed as nofollow or "totally ignore the page".

[XtrimVerSuS]

A very good example is an error or confirmation page. You don't want it to be indexed, but the links should be followed.

[wicked4u2c]

Another example would be a members only section.

[XtrimVerSuS]

@wicked4u2c If it's a member area, google can't access it, right?

[wicked4u2c]

@XtrimVerSuS Depends if it is password protected, but you can have a members area that may not be important to be indexed.