Should I use a norobots meta on landing pages?

Discussion in 'Google AdWords' started by CleverDick, Jan 15, 2008.

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    I have created several landing pages for a campaign each of which includes a special offer. I only want people who find this landing page via adwords to get the special offer. So I don't want the landing pages to be indexed in Google or elsewhere and was thinking that I should just include a robots noindex tag.

    Would this negatively affect my Google Adrank?
     
    CleverDick, Jan 15, 2008 IP
  2. cianuro

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    As long as the pages are not linked from anywhere then you don't need to worry about it.

    But you should.

    robots.txt exclude your /ppc/ dir. Noindex, noarchive and nofollow your landing pages too.
     
    cianuro, Jan 16, 2008 IP
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    Remember there are 2 kinds of robots which google uses to crawl.. GoogleBot, MediaBot, AdsBot...

    when you install a robots txt file ensure you allow Adsbot but not allow Googlebot..

    Cianuro is right that dont link it from elsewhere...
     
    sem-consultant, Jan 16, 2008 IP
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    There is one link on the landing page to the main website. Is there any reason I should include nofollow? I'm happy for the robots to go to that page.
     
    CleverDick, Jan 16, 2008 IP
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    Perfect. I wasn't familiar with Adsbot. Thanks.
     
    CleverDick, Jan 16, 2008 IP