1script - 3:16 am on Sep 21, 2012 (gmt 0)

I forgot to add: I am looking at messing with robots.txt instead of adding a meta robots noindex tag to the homepage because

#1 I would prefer to redirect the old (bad) homepage to the new via a 301

#2 Google lists only two remedies to bad links' influence on a page:

(from [support.google.com...] ) * Adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to the <a> tag * Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file

the first is not possible - I don't control the links, long story (all in my earlier posts here at WebmasterWorld)

the second - I would like to make the bad homepage that intermediate page for the new homepage (if it makes sense)

So, it sounds like I would have to disallow it in robots.txt if it's even possible.