Subscription form "thank you" page.

What happens if Google finds it?

[Perfection]

I have an email subscription form on my site. Once someone enters their info and clicks "subscribe," they are brought to my thank you page. This page does not contain my site's design template. There are no images, logos, ads or pretty colors. It is as basic as basic can be with 2 paragraphs of text explaining that they should check their email for the confirmation message and blah blah blah... with a link to "Go back to domain.com.com."

I've been out of the SEO loop for a bit, but one thing I remember is how Google used to see pages with no incoming internal links as evil doorway pages. This would result in some sort of penalty on the site. Whether or not this is still the case today, I'm not sure.

However, technically my "thank you" page fits the old school doorway page mold. It has no internal (or external) links pointing to it, and it's just some text with a link to my site. Does Google still view things this way?

Should I throw a <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> on this page just for the heck of it, or does it really not even matter anymore and I'm worrying about nothing?

What do you guys do?

[abates]

As I see it, you're talking about a page which would be of very little use to a casual surfer (or anyone other than someone who has just entered their info), and a page which you'd gain nothing (or at least very very little) by having it in a search engine index.

I say go ahead and add the meta tag. :)

[Angonasec]

In robots.txt I use:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /thankyou.htm
Disallow: /subscribed.htm
Disallow: /unsubscribed.htm

And the noindex meta tags on the pages.
Have done for years without problems.

Seeing how (over)sensitive G has become you'd be wise to do likewise.

[kaled]

I have a form with a help div that is initially hidden. That page has a noindex robots meta just in case Google decides to spit the dummy.

Kaled.