Link List SEO / Seppuku

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Originally Posted by Halfdeck

Sure. That's possible too; that's why I suggested a temporary test. Just having a couple extra pages in the main index probably won't mean a huge boost in traffic and if the keywords targeted by those pages are competitive, you may not rank high enough to see a noticeable difference.

Ok, you convinced me. I'll give it a shot. I just edited my robots.txt to disallow both the detail and tag pages. I have been seeing a trickle of traffic off of a few of those detail pages, and hate to lose a single daily hit, but I did say I was willing to experiment. Hopefully this proves helpful. If not, it's a lesson learned and it's not as if there is a heavy amount of traffic at risk.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Ok, you convinced me. I'll give it a shot. I just edited my robots.txt to disallow both the detail and tag pages.

Well...apparently you don't have to keep the door open very long before the hungry vermin find their way in. Ever since I put the disallow back in place for my tag pages, Googlebot and Yahoo! Slurp have been munching almost exclusively on my tag pages. That disallow was missing less than 24 hours. Go figure.

I can't promise traffic to my submitters , but I can guarantee that I will direct the bots in your general direction (from many, many pages) .