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    • digisavvy
      digisavvy last edited by

      I've got several pages that have "too many on page links" and the pages mentioned have already been noindexed. Do these pages need to be no followed too? Here's one of the pages: http://digisavvy.com/site-map/.

      There's several pages like this, most of which are category or tag archives, which I've noindexed... Do I need to nofollow these, too?

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      • alexhoug
        alexhoug last edited by

        If you don't want it to be discovered by the search engines cause it has too many links and such, block it with the robots.txt. It will still obviously be visible to the users on the site, but the search engines won't crawl it and possibly penalize it.

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        • digisavvy
          digisavvy last edited by

          I do understand that I can at a robots.txt rule. I just want to make sure my understanding was correct. If a page is noindexed, it should be ignored by search engines, right?

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          • alexhoug
            alexhoug @digisavvy last edited by

            Not always, use the robots.txt to be 100% sure.

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