If you want to noindex any of your pages, there is no way that Google or any other search engines will think something is fishy. Its up to the webmaster to decide what and what not to get indexed from his website. If you implement page level noindex, the link juice will still flow to the page but if you also have nofollow along with noindex, the link juice will flow to the page but will be contained on the page itself and will not be passed on the links that flow out of that page.

I conclude by saying, there is nothing wrong in making the pages non-indexable.

Here is an interesting discussion related to this on Moz:

http://moz.com/community/q/noindex-follow-is-a-waste-of-link-juice

Hope it helps.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

If you wish not to show these pages even to the front end user, you can just block them using the page level robots meta tag so that these pages will never be indexed by the search engines as well.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Hi there, it is a very good idea to block any and all the pages that do not provide any useful content to the visitors and especially when they are very thin content wise. So the idea is to keep away low quality content that does no good to the visitor, from the Internet. Search engines would love every webmaster doing so.

However, sometimes, no matter how thin the content is on some pages, they still provide good information to the visitors and serve the purpose of the visit. In this case, you can provide contextual links to those pages and add the nofollow attribute to the link. Of course you should ideally be implementing the page level blocking using the robots meta tag on those pages. I do not think you should return a 404 on these pages as there is no need to do so. When a page level blocking is implemented, Google will not index the blocked content even if it finds a third party reference to it from elsewhere on the Internet.

If you have implemented the page level noindex using the robots meta tag, there is no need to go for a sitemap with these URLs. With noindex in place, as I mentioned above, Google will not index the content even if it discovers the page using a reference from anywhere on the Internet.

Hope it helps my friend.Best,Devanur Rafi

Hi Bill here you...

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

and here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en

Hope those help.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi, yes Google does not care about the keywords meta tag but abusing it is also not recommended as some other search engines still consider this tag a little bit. Moreover, abusing or over optimizing keywords meta tag tells a lot about the intent of a webmaster which is even more dangerous.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

Chris has it spot on..

Was just curious at the keywords meta tag on your home page:

With this kind of keywords meta tag you are definitely inviting an over optimization penalty. Moreover, you can safely drop the keywords meta tag and its of little to no use these days and Google does not care about it.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi there, once you scan your site using Screaming Frog, you can highlight a page by selecting it. At the bottom left hand corner, you see a menu with tabs named, URL Info, In Links, Out Links and Image Info. You just need to click the 'Out Links' tab and there you have the out going links and the anchor text. Hope this answers your query.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi Ramesh,

Being able to access your website using the IP address is very common and there is nothing that you should be worried about in this regard. It happens when you are hosting your site on a dedicated IP. This won't be the case if you go for a shared hosting where the IP address would be shared among other websites.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi, I don't think those are irrelevant links as the niche that the client operates in is somehow (the client's product is used or consumed by mining or construction industries) connected to these industries. Having that said, there is no clear line that can be drawn to define relevancy while doing link building. However, if you have a website about computer software and you fetch links from a porn website is something apparently irrelevant. Coming to the current case, I do not think there is anything that should be frowned upon and that you should be worried about. Just my two cents.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.