Key_Master - 4:29 pm on Jul 9, 2008 (gmt 0)

Noindexing these type of overhead pages is something I'm very hesitant to do as I don't know what signals are used in part to establish "trust." Might Google or other SEs look to the presence of contact or privacy pages as such a signal? I don't know, but as long as they could, I want them to know that they're there.

I have a p3p privacy policy that Google and other search engines do crawl (and probably understand better than the made for humans version). Even without one, I doubt there would be a trust issue. They know the pages are there and they do crawl them- I'm just politely asking them not to include them in search results. That doesn't mean they can't be used for internal purposes.