Link Value on a 'Noindex' Page

[watto]

Lets say you have two urls, both with the same pr (5 for example), same niche, both have no external links and no internal pages (it is only a 1 page site), and then you placed one external link. Would this external link be valued less if this one page website was 'noindexed'?

[govindseo]

IMO no value of link from NO-INDEX page, because no value will pass to your web if link is added to a page is not index.

[weegillis]

Noindex does not mean nofollow. One could reason that if the link is followed, it will take some juice with it to the target page. You raise an interesting question, though. Does a noindex page even have passable link juice?

[deepsand]

NoIndex means only that the data are to not be publicly displayed in the SERPs.

Said data are otherwise handled per usual, with the result that the resource can both receive and pass PR.

[chandrika]

It is an interesting question and I agree with DS, as long as the page is just "noindex" and does not "disallow" robots or have any "nofollow" attributes, the link I would expect to be treated like any other link.

The fact that the page with the "noindex" tag has a PR 5, suggests that "noindex" does not seem to figure in PR calculations and links followed from there I would expect to benefit same as from any PR 5 page.

[watto]

Thanks for the feedback guys. What if I put the question in a different way.......Would the link be more valuable if the page in question was indexed compared to the paged being noindexed?

[deepsand]

Thanks for the feedback guys. What if I put the question in a different way.......Would the link be more valuable if the page in question was indexed compared to the paged being noindexed?

It is indexed; it's simply hidden from the SERPs. That is the only effect of noindex.

Were it not indexed, it could not possibly have PR.

[watto]

If an url is hidden from the serps, then that means it is not indexed. Period!

A noindex page can still accumulate pr if there are external links pointing to this url.

So, if this page was indexed would more pr be pushed to the external link compared to this page being 'noindex'?

[deepsand]

If an url is hidden from the serps, then that means it is not indexed. Period!

Wrong; period!

There is an important distinction between that which indexed and that which is publicly visible.

A noindex page can still accumulate pr if there are external links pointing to this url.

A non-indexed resource, by definition, does not exist in the database, and is therefore is not present in the PR matrix.


... where p1,p2,...,pN are the pages under consideration, M(pi) is the set of pages that link to pi, L(pj) is the number of outbound links on page pj, and N is the total number of pages.

So, if this page was indexed would more pr be pushed to the external link compared to this page being 'noindex'?

Asked and answered.

NoIndex does not mean non-indexed.

You appear to be conflating NoCrawl with NoIndex.

[watto]

NoCrawl????? Is this a new directive?

NoIndex does not mean non-indexed.....are you serious man? This should help clear things up for you.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-noindex-behavior/

Lets say there are 3 pages. A, B and C.

Page B is noindexed.

Page A is linking to page B and page B is linking to page C. Page A will pass pr to page B, then page B will accumulate a small percentage of page A's page rank and pass the remainder of the page rank to page C.