To NoFollow or to NoIndex internal links
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I all, I have recently taken over a fairly large e-commerce site that I am trying to "fix" and have come across something that I need a second opinion on.
A Semrush audit has revealed that there are a heck of a lot of internal nofollow links (over 90 000) that point to predominantly 4 pages from the Header of each page in the site, these are change currency pages to show clients different currencies and a members login page. The pages are:
/?action=changecurrency¤cy=EUR
/?action=changecurrency¤cy=USD
/?action=changecurrency¤cy=GBP
/members/
My opinion is that these pages should just be no index pages and they should be followed. instead of being indexed and no followed?
Any thoughts on this out there?
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Glad to help!
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You're awesome! Thanks a million
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Yea, I wouldn't worry too much about those. You should however, specify the purpose of those parameters in Google Search Console - it'll help Google better understand their function. Here's a good guide on how to do that: http://www.shoutmeloud.com/google-webmaster-tool-added-url-parameter-option-seo.html
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Thats a great help thanks Logan... Yes the Members area is account-level so I will de-index that. With regards to the other Currency thing, should I just ignore those "Error Warnings" then?
Cheers
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Hi,
I wouldn't recommend the noindex approach here. Three of your four URLs are parameter'd versions of the homepage; meta tags are applied at the page level, not by parameters. This means your noindex tag would apply to the homepage - no good!! You could put a nofollow attribute on the links that point to those parameter URLs, but don't expect it to have a huge impact on your SEO efforts. Your /members/ folder might be worth de-indexing via a noindex tag, depends on what is contained in that folder. It sounds like it's probably account-level pages, if that's the case, you can and should keep those pages out of the index.
Hope that's helpful!
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