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pwcarguy
Joined: Jul 27, 2007
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Posted: 2007-Jul-31 07:49
If an external site links to a page that is not indexed (by way of robots.txt or some such manner), does the link still count?
For example, say there are two sites: domainA.com and domainB.com.
domainA.com is a candy site. domainB.com is a Jellybean site. domainA.com creates a text link ("Free Jellybeans" to www.domainB.com/articles/jellybeans.html. However, domainB.com has a "Disallow: /articles/" line in its robots.txt file.
Does domainB.com still benefit from the link with respect to search engines?
Let me know if I need to clarify further. Thanks.
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SportsGuy
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Joined: Aug 30, 2002
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Posted: 2007-Jul-31 12:59
I'd say no, there's no benefit.
This is based on the fact that even though the spiders will see the content, and crawl it from the inbound link, the originating domain (domain that owns the content) has instructions to not index the specific page.
It would be no different if DomainA linked to it's own content, then placed a robots.txt that said to noindex everything in the, in this example, /articles/ folder.
Since the link is pointing to a page that'll never make it into the SERPs, the one page that would benefit from the inbound link - jellybeans.html - will not use the link's value, and, consequently, there's no spillover from that page to other internal pages either.
HTH
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pwcarguy
Joined: Jul 27, 2007
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Posted: 2007-Aug-01 00:04
That makes sense. Thank you for the insight.
I have a situation that very is similar, and I was trying to figure out a way to preserve the link value from external sites, without having the content indexed. I was going to see if I can ask the sites to link to the main page instead, but I thought I would at least see if there was a better way to do this.
It's nothing nefarious... the site was used as a placeholder for some content, and ended up being linked by a few good sites. The content is not relevant to the overall purpose of the site (BTW, it's not adult/illegal content or anything like that. ), and I see little benefit to allowing the pages to be indexed. I'm also worried the stark subject change might actually have a negative effect.
I think I already know the answer, but is there a way to benefit from this scenario?
Thanks again!
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