noindex,follow

Discussion in 'Google' started by Percept, Sep 13, 2004.

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    I'm 99% sure meta tags don't influence the PR of a page but I'm gonna ask anyway to make sure. Will the meta tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> have ANY influence on the PR of my pages ?

    My blog gets "a lot" of SE visitors but 50% of the time they end up on a categorie page instead of on the actual article page because my categorie pages have higher PR values (logical isn't it ;)). It would be better if I could direct these people exactly where they need to be instead that they need to find the matching post for themselfs.
     
    Percept, Sep 13, 2004 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    No... the only thing that affects PageRank are the links you have pointing to that page.
     
    digitalpoint, Sep 13, 2004 IP
  3. Percept

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    Yeah that's what I was thinking but better safe then sorry ;)

    Thanks.
     
    Percept, Sep 13, 2004 IP
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    Meta tags do not affect the PR in any way... PR for a page is calculated on the basis of links pointing to the page in question. You can read more about PR here:
    http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html
     
    vlead, Sep 17, 2004 IP