When you add 10.000 pages that have no real intention to rank in the SERP, should you: "follow,noindex" or disallow the whole directory through robots? What is your opinion?
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I just want a second opinion
The customer don't want to loose any internal linkvalue by vaporizing link value though a big amount of internal links. What would you do?
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Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your answer. Please take a look to the reply above on Fredrico
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Hi Federico,
In this case it's an affiliate website and the 10.000 pages are all prodcutpages. It's all coming from datafeeds so it's duplicate content.
We don't want to index this that's for sure.
So noindex,follow or disallow the whole directory or both...
We have our own opinion about this but I want to hear what others are thinking about this
Thanks in advanced!
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Yep, I agree with belt and suspenders.
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Wesley - I do agree with Federico.
That said, if they really don't want those pages indexed, use the belt-and-suspender method (if you wear both a belt and suspenders, chances are greater that your pants won't fall down).
I'd put a robot.txt file to disallow the indexing of the directory, and also no-index / no-follow each of the pages, too.
That way when they have someone working on the pages in the site and they change things to followed, you're still covered. Likewise, if someone blows away the robot.txt file.
Just my $0.02, but hope it helps…
-- Jeff -
What do they have? 10,000 pages of uninteresting content? a robots tag noindex,follow will do to leave them our of engines. But to decide you really need to know what those pages have. 10,000 isn't a few, and if there's value content worth sharing, a page could get a link, that if you disallow it through the robots, won't even flow pagerank.
It all comes down to what are those pages for...?
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