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---- Bury my "Links Page" directory to save page rank?

thiefware - 1:36 pm on Aug 29, 2002 (gmt 0)


If someone else puts this tag into their pages:

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow">

... doesn't that keep that page from being included in with the engine's database thus keeping all reciprocal linking partners from getting any benefit?

Put another way...
Putting in the noindex will prevent destination sites from gaining link popularity, will not provide destination sites with any pagerank credit.

So basically:

Site A benefits with link popularity and pagerank while site B gets no pagerank and no link pop benefit because the site linking to it has a noindex robot control in place. Is that correct? That's how I see it.

I have a site wanting to do reciprocal linking but they are putting in noindex,follow on their links pages and my pages allow all indexing. If I were to do reciprocals, it would seem to be a one way benefit as far as engines go with the other site not giving pagerank/link pop back to my site. If I want to gain link pop/pagerank, their noindex will keep my site from getting that pagerank/link pop right?

(OK, now that I've said that 100 different ways... answers please, thanks :))

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