Great. So you don't think it's a red flag to search engines when a site has a large number of noindexed pages, that are still being (internally) linked to?

I manage a directory site with hundreds of thousands of indexed pages. I want to remove a significant number of these pages from the index using NOINDEX and have 2 questions about this:

1. Is NOINDEX the most effective way to remove large numbers of pages from Google's index?

2. The IA of our site means that we will have thousands of internal links pointing to these noindexed pages if we make this change. Is it a problem to link to pages with a noindex directive on them?

Thanks in advance for all responses.

Great, thanks for these answers. I figured iframe and image were my best options. I will implement one of those.

Cheers.

For legal reasons I am required to include a 266 word disclaimer in the footer of every page of my credit card comparison site creditcards.com.au. My question is in 2 parts:

• is this indexable content likely to be hurting my SEO?

• if so, what is the best way to include the text in the footer but prevent search engines from indexing it?

Thanks.