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What to do with multiple forms and thank you pages
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Hi Everyone, I'm wondering what to do with form and thank you pages. I asked a question a long time ago about the contact page as noindex and was told by people that its better to leave it and write content for it and thats what we did.
Now I have a client that does self storage and they have 4 locations and each location has a reservation page with a basic form but no content. Each page also redirects to a thank you page with tracking codes.
There's a total of 6 "thank you" pages with different codes (this was done by yellow book). 4 "reserve your storage pages", 2 pages to pay for storage with iframes to 3rd party payment portals.
I was told to noindex these pages but I'm not sure so I'm asking here. I was also told to nofollow and remove them from sitemaps.
Thanks
Aron
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Thanks for the help.
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Told to write content for a CONTACT US page! Classic content-brainwashed SEO.
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Hi Aron,
I agree with Samuel on this one, just make sure Google is just not able to find the thank-you pages. I would even add these pages to your robots.txt file to make sure they won't even reach these pages in their crawls.
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Dr. Pete and others answered a similar question here. I agree with their sentiments: no-index any pages that may even come close to seeming "thin" or duplicates of other similar pages. Following Panda, you just don't want to risk it.
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