Canonical needed after no index
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Hi do you need to point canonical from a subpage to main page if you have already marked a no index on the subpage, like when google is not indexing it so do we need canonicals now as is it passing any juice?
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Thanks Alan
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I tried also could not find it.
but here is a quote from Matt Cutts
"Eric Enge: Can a NoIndex page accumulate PageRank?Matt Cutts: A NoIndex page can accumulate PageRank, because the links are still followed outwards from a NoIndex page.
Eric Enge: So, it can accumulate and pass PageRank.
Matt Cutts: Right, and it will still accumulate PageRank, but it won't be showing in our Index. So, I wouldn't make a NoIndex page that itself is a dead end. You can make a NoIndex page that has links to lots of other pages.
For example you might want to have a master Sitemap page and for whatever reason NoIndex that, but then have links to all your sub Sitemaps.
Eric Enge: Another example is if you have pages on a site with content that from a user point of view you recognize that it's valuable to have the page, but you feel that is too duplicative of content on another page on the site
That page might still get links, but you don't want it in the Index and you want the crawler to follow the paths into the rest of the site.
Matt Cutts: That's right. Another good example is, maybe you have a login page, and everybody ends up linking to that login page. That provides very little content value, so you could NoIndex that page, but then the outgoing links would still have PageRank.
Now, if you want to you can also add a NoFollow metatag, and that will say don't show this page at all in Google's Index, and don't follow any outgoing links, and no PageRank flows from that page. We really think of these things as trying to provide as many opportunities as possible to sculpt where you want your PageRank to flow, or where you want Googlebot to spend more time and attention."
http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml
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Hey Alan
I tried looking for that but returned empty handed. Any chance you can post a link to that if you come across that video again. Much appreciated
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Where did you hear this
Matt Cutts as I remember stated that that link juice will flow thought if you use a follow, if I remember correctly it was in a interview with Rand on SEOMOZ
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the meta tag of follow will not pass any link juice!!! It is only an instruction for bots to crawl the pages from the links on the page.
Please see the answer below
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If its not in the index, then a canonical will have no value.
I wold no no index any page unless you have a very good reason, if I had to I would use meta tag, noindex,follow so that any link juice pointing to the page will be returned
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