A Huge WP SEO Footprint you might have missed.

Over the last few weeks I've seen a few threads here pop up about robots.txt, no-index tags on duplicate content etc...

But at the same time I have never really seen anyone discuss this obvious footprint a lot of people might be leaving for Google on their WP installations.

Do you build links to you no-index content?

/category/post/
/page/number/

etc...etc..

If your not doing this. Well your making it way too easy for anyone to see that you are building those links yourself. In fact you might as well give Google a call and tell them "smack me now honey I need the hurt badly".

Any page on your site that is accessible by humans and has content worth linking too, should be linked to. Regardless of its SEO value to you.

Look at it this way.

The person visiting your site has no clue about SEO, has no clue what no-index means, and has no clue about the SEO juice you gain from them making links to you.

A "natural" person just finds content they enjoyed reading, wants to share it, and links to it regardless of what the url reads or index status of the page. They can as easily link to a /category/post/ page as they can your homepage.

So do you link to your no-index pages?
Or are you running off to Senuke now to start?

Just to add. Disallow might stop a crawler. But your inbound links will expose the truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM2VDkXPt0I#t=580