When would someone use "noindex, follow" in a robots meta tag?
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Uploaded by GoogleWebmasterHelp on Feb 15, 2011
Can you give us an example of a situation where you would recommend using a NOINDEX, FOLLOW robots META tag? Andy, NY
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Nice question Andy. I have same question as you. Now it has been answered.
agapitoflores001 3 months ago
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?
losdecline 8 months ago
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.
jschwartzhmc 11 months ago
@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.
BrightSoul80 1 year ago
I dont understand why did I watch this video
brydendsouza 1 year ago
I do not understand why should the "follow" directive be included. Doesn't Googlebot follow by default?
Webnauts 1 year ago
Whoah now are you suggesting having a lot of internal links on page is considered a little spammy??????????
incrediblehelp 1 year ago
hm are is Matt 200+ internal links on a page could be considered spammy?
bigal21110 1 year ago
@IgorHW I think when you put noindex it's also assumed as nofollow or "totally ignore the page".
dekoderek 1 year ago
I use it on error pages and login pages..
Sander33333 1 year ago