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Backlinks to no-index pages

by vstar00
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Hello,

What happens to backlinks I send to no-index pages.

For instance, I have a page sitedotcom/a/ this is from articles as I want to track the number of subscribers from articles. But that page has a noindex robot text as I dont want it coming up in google. Are these backlinks being wasted?
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  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Google doesn't assign PR to pages that are not indexed. So those backlinks are not useful for SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author vstar00
    will they be counted to the 'total domain' links?
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  • Profile picture of the author vstar00
    as in the total number of links pointing back to the domain.

    If it is not counting the /a/ page, will it still register as a backlink for the .com?
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Originally Posted by vstar00 View Post

      as in the total number of links pointing back to the domain.

      If it is not counting the /a/ page, will it still register as a backlink for the .com?
      That's not how Google works. They don't count links, they use a calculation known as PageRank that pulls data from their index and calculates a PageRank score.

      The PageRank formula does not count the number of domains according to Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author ecommerce web developer
    Google doesn't assign a page rank,if it is no index,..the back links are waste in this case..it totally depends on page rank algorithm,..which exactly gives the page rank to a site.
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  • Profile picture of the author buzinessware
    Those back links are not count if you put noindex code on robos.txt
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Originally Posted by vstar00 View Post

    Hello,

    What happens to backlinks I send to no-index pages.
    So, you want people to just surf in, but not via a search engine?

    Strange.

    noindex is not a guarantee of no index.

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  • Profile picture of the author socialbookmark
    As no-index pages will no be indexed by Google, so the backlinks you have on those pages will not be counted. Because when Google doesn't index this page, how can it count the backlinks which are a part of this page?
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    • Profile picture of the author vstar00
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      So, you want people to just surf in, but not via a search engine?

      Strange.

      noindex is not a guarantee of no index.

      Paul

      The .com is indexed

      just not the .com/a/ (which is the same page, just with different squeeze page tracking)

      Originally Posted by socialbookmark View Post

      As no-index pages will no be indexed by Google, so the backlinks you have on those pages will not be counted. Because when Google doesn't index this page, how can it count the backlinks which are a part of this page?
      But Google will crawl the pages where the backlink exists. So it will see that there are other sites pointing to the domain, even if the page itself is not indexed....


      On a side note, I was pretty sure that they would not be counted, just making sure
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      • Profile picture of the author scott g
        I can't believe this has turned into such a hot thread!!?? As someone already stated, the backlink WILL count toward the total # of backlinks to the TLD. Hell, it's going to count toward the total # of backlinks to the NOINDEXed page. Yes, NOINDEX pages can have backlinks too, but what would be the purpose? To me it seems pretty pointless to build a backlink to a NOINDEX page... Unless it's some disclaimer, thank you page, or duplicate/forged content you don't want Google to see...

        How did this thread turn into a conversation about PR algorithms? How the hell would Google ever consider giving a web page they don't even have in their Index a PageRank...? Really?!
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