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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

What Pages on Your Site Should You Consider No-Indexing? | Ep. #341

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #341, Eric and Neil discuss which pages on your site you should consider no-indexing. Tune in to learn what pages on your website are the BEST candidates for no-indexing and how no-indexing pages can affect your crawl budget for the better. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: What Pages on Your Site Should You Consider No-Indexing? 00:38 – No-indexing is putting a code within your HTML that tells Google not to index the page 01:23 – Indexing a page can control your crawl budget 01:41 – You want to take your low-quality content to no-index 01:54 – Neil takes the pages that are not getting much traffic 02:00 – Neil takes them from Google Analytics that has less than 100 visitors from a search 02:30 – For e-commerce, you can consider no-indexing search pages 02:40 – Look at your Google Analytics to know which page to cut out 02:55 – Eric thinks that the category page isn’t useful and should be no-index 03:20 – No-index your paginated results 03:30 – Marketing School is giving away a free 1 year subscription of Drip which is an email automation tool 03:52 – Subscribe, rate and review Marketing School 03:55 – Text MARKETINGSCHOOL to 33444 for those in the US 04:00 – For international listeners, just email eric@singlegrain.com 04:12 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: No-index the pages that are not creating traffic for your website. Checking your Google analytics can help you analyze which pages are supposed to be on no-index. Indexing pages can control your crawl budget. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

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entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

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marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

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with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

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Welcome to another edition of Marketing School.

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I'm Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about what pages on your site you should consider no indexing so first and foremost

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Neil maybe we should describe what no indexing is what is no indexing yeah no

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indexing is putting this code within your

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H.T. M. L. And it just tells Google, do not index this page or you can use a robots.

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T.X. file and tell Google don't index the following pages or

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subdirectories or sub-domains.

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So, you know, from a blog perspective, you know,

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when I think about what I always know index,

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it's almost always the tag pages, right?

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