Crawl Budget on Noindex Follow
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We have a list of crawled product search pages where pagination on Page 1 is indexed and crawled and page 2 and onward is noindex, noarchive follow as we want the links followed to the Product Pages themselves. (All product Pages have canonicals and unique URLs) Orr search results will be increasing the sets, and thus Google will have more links to follow on our wesbite although they all will be noindex pages. will this impact our carwl budget and additionally have impact to our rankings?
Page 1 - Crawled Indexed and Followed
Page 2 onward - Crawled No-index No-Archive Followed
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Phil G
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Check out Google's latest "handling" of pagination using rel=canonical, rel=next + rel=prev
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njn8uXTWiGgYou can now:
Page 1:
- canonical: page 1
- next: page 2
Page 2:
- canonical: page 2
- next: page 3
- prev: page 1
Page 3:
- canonical: page 3
- next: page 4
- prev: page 2
Page 4 (say last page):
- canonical: page 4
- prev : page 3
Another option is to have a "view all" page which lists all products & you can point a canonical to that page from all pages within the set
Hope that helps
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