No_index of parent page
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Hi, sorry its a Friday question...
Page A: www.example.com/house/
Page B: www.example.com/house/kitchen
Can I 'no_index' page A without it effecting page B being indexed?
Views?
Many thanks!
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**should do the job, checkout** http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html if you are unsure
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Hi
Indeed www.example.com/house has no content. There are a number of pages like this where the parent has no content but the child does. (something historical by the person who set up the website, not ideal)
Interesting though, some of the empty parent pages are being indexed even though they are empty.
I was thinking these parent pages are useless to visitors so if the company does not plan to add copy them then best noindex them...
Would you agree?
thank you
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Does www.example.com/house/ have any content? Just curious since ideally it should, but that's not what you are asking. Anyways, to answer your question, yes, you can no-index a particular page with the following Meta Tag -
The search engines will still crawl that page and follow the links so www.example.com/house/kitchen should still be indexable.
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