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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 5:20 am
I think a better use case for this would actually be more in the listings case. So imagine if we run a used car website, where we have millions of different used car individual sort of product listings. Now we don't really want Google to be wasting its time on these individual listings, depending on the scale of our site perhaps. But occasionally a celebrity might upload their car or something like that, or a very rare car might be uploaded and that will start to get media links.
So we don't want to block that page in robots.txt because that's external links that we would be pakistan business email list squandering in that case. So what we might do is on our internal links to that page we might internally nofollow the link. So that would mean that it can be crawled, but only if it's found, only if Google finds it in some other way, so through an external link or something like that. So we sort of have a halfway house here.
s a hint. In my experience, Google will not crawl pages that are only linked to through an internal nofollow. If it finds the page in some other way, obviously it will still crawl it. But generally speaking, this can be effective as a way of restricting crawl budget or I should say more efficiently using crawl budget. The page can still be indexed. That's what we were trying to achieve in that example.
So we don't want to block that page in robots.txt because that's external links that we would be pakistan business email list squandering in that case. So what we might do is on our internal links to that page we might internally nofollow the link. So that would mean that it can be crawled, but only if it's found, only if Google finds it in some other way, so through an external link or something like that. So we sort of have a halfway house here.
s a hint. In my experience, Google will not crawl pages that are only linked to through an internal nofollow. If it finds the page in some other way, obviously it will still crawl it. But generally speaking, this can be effective as a way of restricting crawl budget or I should say more efficiently using crawl budget. The page can still be indexed. That's what we were trying to achieve in that example.