Will these pages harm the SEO of my blog?
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Hi there,
If I put download pages and thank you pages on my blog, will it harm the SEO rankings?
As these pages will be pretty thin and will have no links to them internally for obvious reasons, it has me concerned about the effect it could have on my blog.
I want to build my blog up to drive traffic, so it's not just a case of throwing the pages up.
What is the best solution?
No index the pages -- will that be enough?
Warm regards
Colin
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Hi you can simply remove these pages to avoid from these issue
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Having a thank you page & download pages will not be anywhere near enough thin content to hurt your site.
You are talking about just two pages right?
You can no index & it will keep them from ranking
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@username67
Hi Colin,
Having a thank you page & download pages will not be anywhere near enough thin content to hurt your site.You are talking about just two pages right?
You can no index & it will keep them from ranking
Thank you pages should be no indexed because you don’t want them showing up in the SERPS.
If you’re asking for emails for your downloads the same rules apply.
I hope this helps,
Tom
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