No Index or Delete Low Quality Pages?

Shaunman · 04-24-2011, 04:19 PM

I have a website that was hit pretty hard in the recent Google Panda update and I hear that you can get your site higher in the search engine rankings by getting rid of your lower quality pages.

The question I have is whether I should add a
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"> to lower quality pages blocking just the Google bot fromfinding my page and letting other search engines use it to rank or whether I should just delete my lowest quality pages from the search engines entirely. Thanks

Charles Washington · 04-24-2011, 04:26 PM

If you delete that page, it will take a while for it to get deindexed, assuming it hasnt already been deindexed. If you do delete the page, you would need to 301 redirect the page to a similar page.

Using Meta robots, you need to do nofollow,noindex not just noindex. It will effectively be the same as deleting the page as google takes the meta robots as a deirective.

I was building a new ecommerce site. Google started indexing pages to my site, and I wasnt ready. I used meta robots to noindex,nofollow the site. googlebot quit crawling the site almost immediatly, but the links remained in the SERPS.

Shaunman · 04-24-2011, 04:33 PM

Thanks, that is what I am thinking. I'm just not sure if I have a No index tag on it Google will just read the page still negatively affect the rest of my site if it is low quality enough, but just not index that page or if it will just treat it as if I deleted that page.

I know if I delete it they can't use it against me, but I'm wondering if that is true if I noindex it. Maybe I am overthinking it.

Charles Washington · 04-24-2011, 04:57 PM

Either way you are going to continued to be penalized for a while. If the issue is the content, why not just rewrite the content so it is quality. I had the homepage of an ecommerce site deindexed the day of the panda update. The homepage ranked for over 10k keywords of high value.

I simply rewrote and redsigned all content on that page. Two weeks later, the homepage was reindexed even stronger than before.

If you PM me the site and your issues, I might be able to point you in the right direction.

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Shaunman · 04-24-2011, 08:10 PM

Charels Thanks a lot! I PMed u

cheesee · 04-24-2011, 08:21 PM

Why not just rewrite the content of the lower quality pages? Then have those pages getting re indexed.

04-24-2011, 04:19 PM	#1
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04-24-2011, 04:26 PM	#2
Charles Washington Highly Actionable War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Florida Posts: 1,595 Thanks: 341 Thanked 265 Times in 182 Posts	Re: No Index or Delete Low Quality Pages? If you delete that page, it will take a while for it to get deindexed, assuming it hasnt already been deindexed. If you do delete the page, you would need to 301 redirect the page to a similar page. Using Meta robots, you need to do nofollow,noindex not just noindex. It will effectively be the same as deleting the page as google takes the meta robots as a deirective. I was building a new ecommerce site. Google started indexing pages to my site, and I wasnt ready. I used meta robots to noindex,nofollow the site. googlebot quit crawling the site almost immediatly, but the links remained in the SERPS.

04-24-2011, 04:33 PM	#3
Shaunman HyperActive Warrior Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 284 Thanks: 7 Thanked 15 Times in 15 Posts	Re: No Index or Delete Low Quality Pages? Thanks, that is what I am thinking. I'm just not sure if I have a No index tag on it Google will just read the page still negatively affect the rest of my site if it is low quality enough, but just not index that page or if it will just treat it as if I deleted that page. I know if I delete it they can't use it against me, but I'm wondering if that is true if I noindex it. Maybe I am overthinking it.
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04-24-2011, 04:57 PM	#4
Charles Washington Highly Actionable War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Florida Posts: 1,595 Thanks: 341 Thanked 265 Times in 182 Posts	Re: No Index or Delete Low Quality Pages? Either way you are going to continued to be penalized for a while. If the issue is the content, why not just rewrite the content so it is quality. I had the homepage of an ecommerce site deindexed the day of the panda update. The homepage ranked for over 10k keywords of high value. I simply rewrote and redsigned all content on that page. Two weeks later, the homepage was reindexed even stronger than before. If you PM me the site and your issues, I might be able to point you in the right direction. Sent from Android

04-24-2011, 08:10 PM	#5
Shaunman HyperActive Warrior Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 284 Thanks: 7 Thanked 15 Times in 15 Posts	Re: No Index or Delete Low Quality Pages? Charels Thanks a lot! I PMed u
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