Comments on: Do You Want Your Ancillary Pages in Googles Index

By: Matt Larson

Matt Larson — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:04:01 +0000

I’ve added them just because they were good items to have on clients’ websites from the perspective of user trust and expectancy, but that’s good to know removing them from the index wouldn’t have an adverse affect.

By: Michael Gray

Michael Gray — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:52:31 +0000

if you think these pages help you with adwords quality you’ve gone down the wrong rabbit hole. Ive seen zero change adding them.

By: Matt Larson

Matt Larson — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:44:26 +0000

Michael,

considering the anecdotal evidence about these types of pages boosting quality score in Adwords, have you noticed if not allowing google to index them has any impact on quality score for landing pages (if indexed in organic results)? Any impact on organic?

By: Kevin Gibbons

Kevin Gibbons — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:17:53 +0000

I believe that having pages such as privacy policy/terms and conditions, about us, contact us etc can help to build the trust Google has in your website (especially for new domains), so I think having these indexed is definitely a good thing.

If they’re the pages used as Google sitelinks I’d try to block them though.

By: PPCBlogger

PPCBlogger — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:06:08 +0000

I think thatâ€™s a good point..what if the ancillary page has a few links. Letâ€™s say the links arenâ€™t even that great. Maybe a few PR0â€™s with bad anchor text. Should we keep them in the index?

Actually, pages with a no index tag can accumalate and pass PR… so in theory if they link back to the site, you shouldn’t lose that value.

By: PPCBlogger

PPCBlogger — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:35:37 +0000

I think its a good idea to have all your pages indexed, but this comes down to the content that is on the pages. What if someone is looking to â€œcontact webmaster@site.com and they canâ€™t find it on your site? If they search on google they might have a better chance of finding it.

I think if they can’t find it easily on your site, then your site probably needs a change more than anything.

By: jorge

jorge — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:47:14 +0000

I think its a good idea to have all your pages indexed, but this comes down to the content that is on the pages. What if someone is looking to “contact webmaster@site.com and they can’t find it on your site? If they search on google they might have a better chance of finding it.

By: Hyena Online

Hyena Online — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:36:45 +0000

Thanks for interesting post.

About us page makes your site more credible…

However, I don’t see it has any significant
value in regards to the ranking of your site
in G o o g l e.

By: gzlatin

gzlatin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:10:43 +0000

I think that’s a good point..what if the ancillary page has a few links. Let’s say the links aren’t even that great. Maybe a few PR0’s with bad anchor text. Should we keep them in the index?

By: PPCBlogger

PPCBlogger — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:36:04 +0000

I think you have to be careful – A few sites I deal with have quite a few links to their ‘about us’ page as an example (due to their nature) and obviously you don’t want to lose this value.