Should I better noindex 'scripted' files in our portfolio?

[BentoPres]

Hello Moz community,

As a means of a portfolio, we upload these PowerPoint exports – which are converted into HTML5 to maintain interactivity and animations. Works pretty nicely! We link to these exported files from our products pages. (We are a presentation design company, so they're pretty relevant).

For example: https://www.bentopresentaties.nl/wp-content/portfolio/ecar/index.html

However, they keep coming up in the Crawl warnings, as the exported HTML-file doesn't contain text (just code), so we get errors in:

• thin content
• no H1
• missing meta description
• missing canonical tag

I could manually add the last two, but the first warnings are just unsolvable.

Therefore I figured we probably better noindex all these files… They appear to don't contain any searchable content and even then; the content of our clients work is not relevant for our search terms etc. They're mere examples, just in the form of HTML files.

Am I missing something or should I better noindex these/such files?

(And if so: is there a way to include a whole directory to noindex automatically, so I don't have to manually 'fix' all the HTML exports with a noindex tag in the future? I read that using disallow in robots.txt wouldn't work, as we will still link to these files as portfolio examples).

[JohnSammon]

Hey Arnout,

I would do a few things:

1. You should be able to edit the html code of each presentation to add  to the meta title of the page. That should be a solid starting point. I know that is tedious but it will help you cover your bases. It looks like you are doing that already.

2. I would still disallow the directory via robots.txt.

3. #2 should work but as an extra, you could add a rel = no follow link property to the places where you link to that specific section. Here's a link for more details on that: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

4. To speed the process up, I would use the search console and request to remove the directory

Hopefully that helps!