"No Index, No Follow" or No Index, Follow" for URLs with Thin Content?

[Kingalan1]

Greetings MOZ community:

If I have a site with about 200 thin content pages that I want Google to remove from their index, should I set them to "No Index, No Follow" or to "No Index, Follow"?

My SEO firm has advised me to set them to "No Index, Follow" but on a recent MOZ help forum post someone suggested "No Index, No Follow". The MOZ poster said that telling Google the content was should not be indexed but the links should be followed was inconstant and could get me into trouble. This make a lot of sense.

What is proper form?

As background, I think I have recently been hit with a Panda 4.0 penalty for thin content. I have several hundred URLs with less than 50 words and want them de-indexed. My site is a commercial real estate site and the listings apparently have too little content.

Thanks, Alan

[LesleyPaone]

I personally would follow them There is no issue in having a page with thin content followed, it will not hurt anything.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

I can agree on this one, in most cases there are still relevant links or main navigation on the page. So that's why it's valuable to have bots follow these links.

[PaddyDisplays]

Personally I think its madness to "no follow" any internal links.  When you "no follow" you are throwing link juice out the window, the days of sculpting links ( the practice of "no following" some links on a page so more juice flows though other "follow" links)  are long gone, yet is still see it being attempted all over the place.