Will Adsense be able to spider a page that has noindex on it?

[lfgoal]

This question could probably fit in the google search forum as well.

I am considering placing some syndicated articles on one of my sites (there seems to be a small handful of good ones on ezinearticles). These articles have probably appeared on dozens of other sites by now and I would suppose that if I use them they'll get flagged as duplicate content so as to not clutter the serps.

Question: Is there any downside to displaying this sort of content? If so, to avoid any potential problems, should I use a noindex on them to keep them out of googlebot's hands?

Second question: If I use a noindex to keep them out of the search engine, will this likewise affect the ability of the adsense spiders to crawl the page?

[Hobbs]

The only way to keep the the Google bots off a page is by listing it in your robots.txt file

noindex does not prevent the mediapartners bot from crawling the page and displaying the right ads, it only tells Google not to show it in the serps.

[lfgoal]

That's good to know and that answers one of my questions. If I use robots.txt or <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> I can keep the pages out of the index and still have the page display relevant adsense.

But what if I decide not to exclude the pages from google in the hope that I can get some search pull out of them. They're articles that have appeared elsewhere numerous times. Any downside to displaying several dozen pages of content that google has already catalogued on other sites?

[MThiessen]

I am considering placing some syndicated articles on one of my sites

If you do not have an exclusive contract they will appear on other sites too, possibly causing you duplicate content issues.

Noindex *will* prevent this problem in serps though. I would not expect a high eCPM from this, even with no-index, as it is likely content that is on many sites.

[lfgoal]

"If you do not have an exclusive contract they will appear on other sites too, possibly causing you duplicate content issues. Noindex *will* prevent this problem in serps though. I would not expect a high eCPM from this, even with no-index, as it is likely content that is on many sites."

Actually, the articles I'm considering using are at ezinearticles so, yes, they've been around the block a few hundred times maybe. I'd like to simply add some free content to one of my sites to flesh it out and give some of my visitors more reasons to linger longer.

I wouldn't mind putting noindex on them. But what I was curious about was this: if I put these articles on my site (without using noindex) I'm fairly sure they'll get filtered out of the serps because, of course, they already appear on other sites.

BUT...is there anything ELSE I should be concerned about for placing several dozen of these articles on my site. In other words, will running multiple instances of dupe content (ezinearticles) have some sort of unanticipated bleedover effect to the rest of my site. As in "profiling".

I wouldn't think so. But I just want to cover the bases.

Any downside to doing this?

[sailorjwd]

Other consequences....

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