No crawl code for pages of helpful links vs. no follow code on each link?
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Our college website has many "owners" who want pages of "helpful links" resulting in a large number of outbound links. If we add code to the pages to prevent them from being crawled, will that be just as effective as making every individual link no follow?
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No problem hope you found what you were looking for.
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Thanks, George!
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I think you might want to read up on the subject to determine just what you would like to do. Personally, I wouldn't "noindex" the pages themselves if they provide useful information for students (and/or others), but I would "nofollow" outbound links by default if I was unable to control what types of links will be placed on those pages.
Here is some reading on the subject:
http://www.blueglass.com/blog/to-nofollow-or-to-noindex-that-is-the-question/
http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml
Hope this helps!
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