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Does Google follow links on noindex pages?

by Dennis Wilson
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I'm trying to work out the best internal linking strategy for my wordpress blogs.

So if i have all my category pages set as "no index" (to avoid dup content) am I then preventing the posts within this category from being crawled by google?

The posts can be reached through the sitemap and I have 10 or so of the most important ones in a menu on the homepage however there are hundreds of posts that are not getting crawled too often.

Hope I made this clear, any help appreciated

Thanks

ps: from now on il be using pages for my most important posts to avoid this issue.
#follow #google #links #noindex #pages
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    There's no dup content penalty for what you
    are using it for.

    As far as noindex, it probably will not be indexed.
    At least by google. The problem is, nothing is a sure
    thing. If it exists, and google chooses, it may be indexed.
    You can limit what is crawled by using robots.txt.

    But here's the thing. 99.99% of the time, for normal
    internet people like you and me, we don't really have
    a need to noindex anything. Google is smart enough to
    know what is important and to include in SERPS.

    Don't worry about any dup penalty in regard to your scenario.

    Paul
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    If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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    • Profile picture of the author Dennis Wilson
      Thanks Paul, I was thinking along similar lines as the majority of wordpress users would have no idea about this type of thing so google would have to make allowances.

      So is there any advantage to allowing category pages to be indexed or tag pages?, will it help google crawl my site better?
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