noindex on non-content pages?

[mikomido]

I have a site with lots of non-content pages. On these pages I have no ads. Should I do robots noindex on these? Will this improve my rankings by giving greater emphasis on the pages with actual original contents and ads?

Can I somehow tell search engines to give greater emphasis on certain pages (the ones with real content)?

[stapel]

If your pages have no content, then why are they "up"? What is their purpose?

Thank you.

Eliz.

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[mikomido]

No content as in meaningful content. Just like... "popular articles" and "latest articles" lists.

[CWebguy]

So for navigation pages, I don't think it would hurt to index them. This should help to spread page rank around, but I'm no expert, someone might have a better idea.

Take care.
Lance