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Noah
Noah
Jan 19, 2025, 10:35 AM
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Sam Penny
Sam Penny
Dec 4, 2024, 3:16 PM
Does anybody have any good experience or case studies on whether building links to no-index pages helps overall visibility?
Rick
Rick
Dec 4, 2024, 3:35 PM
I feel like indexing them would be a bigger visibility play.
Becky Westmoreland
Becky Westmoreland
Dec 4, 2024, 5:11 PM
Why do you want Google to crawl no index pages (just curious)?
Sam Penny
Sam Penny
Dec 4, 2024, 5:42 PM
@Rick @Becky Westmoreland - the idea here would be to create assets that 3rd parties would link to, but we wouldn't necessarily want those pages to be indexed for a number of reasons (mainly competitors stumbling across them)
Rick
Rick
Dec 4, 2024, 5:52 PM
So then, you want the SEO value would flow from these target pages with internal links, like a reservoir?
Or something different?
Sam Penny
Sam Penny
Dec 4, 2024, 10:01 PM
That's what I mean @Rick - does it negate all value to have them no indexed?
Rick
Rick
Dec 4, 2024, 10:44 PM
Sounds like witchcraft to me. I thought noindexed pages didn't pass value, but I've heard it both ways. If an SEO competitor wants to find your web assets, a noindex tag isn't going to hide it from them.
Becky Westmoreland
Becky Westmoreland
Dec 5, 2024, 10:29 AM
I don't think this is a sustainable SEO tactic. Even if a noindex page passes value for a short time - it won't in the long term and you won't be able to predict it. There are more sustainable SEO tactics to focus on.
Craig Harkins
Craig Harkins
Dec 7, 2024, 6:32 AM
Trying to understand the strategy around creating a linkable asset that you purposefully hide from a user search journey.
My assumption is that this page/asset lives on the domain you’re trying to rank. If you’re no indexing because this is a PBN/parasite page we’re talking about a different situation.

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