Thanks Ray - that was my feeling. Appreciate the response!
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RE: Should we remove our "index" pages (alphabetical link list to all of the products on the site)?posted in White Hat / Black Hat SEO
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Should we remove our "index" pages (alphabetical link list to all of the products on the site)?posted in White Hat / Black Hat SEO
We run an e-commerce site with a large number of product families, with each family having a number of products within it. We have a set of pages (26 - one for each letter A-Z) that are lists of links to the product family pages.
We originally created these pages thinking it would aid in discoverability of these pages to search engines, of course as time has gone on, techniques like this have fallen out of favor with Google as it provides negligible value to the user. Should we consider removing these pages from the site overall? Is it possible that it could be viewed by Panda as resembling a link farm?
Thanks in advance!
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RE: NoIndex/NoFollow pages showing up when doing a Google search using "Site:" parameterposted in Technical SEO
Thanks, appreciate you taking the time to write out a response!
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RE: NoIndex/NoFollow pages showing up when doing a Google search using "Site:" parameterposted in Technical SEO
Thank you for your reply. I will get this information over to the dev team!
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NoIndex/NoFollow pages showing up when doing a Google search using "Site:" parameterposted in Technical SEO
We recently launched a beta version of our new website in a subdomain of our existing site. The existing site is www.fonts.com with the beta living at new.fonts.com. We do not want Google to crawl the new site until it's out of beta so we have added the following on all pages:
However, one of our team members noticed that google is displaying results from new.fonts.com when doing an "site:new.fonts.com" search (see attached screenshot). Is it possible that Google is indexing the content despite the noindex, nofollow tags? We have double checked the syntax and it seems correct except the trailing "/". I know Google still crawls noindexed pages, however, the fact that they're showing up in search results using the site search syntax is unsettling.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
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Should we remove our "index" pages (alphabetical link list to all of the products on the site)?posted in White Hat / Black Hat SEO
We run an e-commerce site with a large number of product families, with each family having a number of products within it. We have a set of pages (26 - one for each letter A-Z) that are lists of links to the product family pages.
We originally created these pages thinking it would aid in discoverability of these pages to search engines, of course as time has gone on, techniques like this have fallen out of favor with Google as it provides negligible value to the user. Should we consider removing these pages from the site overall? Is it possible that it could be viewed by Panda as resembling a link farm?
Thanks in advance!