Getting Link Pages Spidered But Not Indexed?

couple of questions

[Keelan Balderson]

Hi, I'm new but have been a long time reader of the boards, you guys have helped me loads in a secondary sense.

I've had a good look around but can't really find anything but robots.txt and I still don't really understand that.

QUESTION:

Considering search engines don't like pages with no content, how do I go about getting various pages on my site that just have links to other pages spidered but not indexed themselves. E.g.

My index page has a link to the articles page, then that just links to several categories of articles.

Or doesn't this matter anyway?

Also a quick question about H tags
are they used for splitting up content on a page so the SE knows what each bit is about or are you supposed to put your keyword in the tag to emphasize your keywords?

[Marcia]

If I'm understanding you right, you want the links followed, but the pages not indexed? If so, it would be the robots meta tag:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">

For using the H(n)on a page, they can include keywords (and should) but basically they serve to structure the page so that users have an easy time following how the page is logically set up. Here's the W3C explanation of HTML page structure and elements:

[w3.org...]