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: Avoiding crawl time for noindex pages I have pages with noindex in robots meta tag (specifically inner site search results pages). Because my site has many pages and Google hasn't crawled them

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I have pages with noindex in robots meta tag (specifically inner site search results pages). Because my site has many pages and Google hasn't crawled them all and I'm trying to help his crawler focus and not waste time on irrelevant pages (such as these noindex pages).

If I add a nofollow to the a href that links to these pages, will that help?
Is the noindex in the target pages helpful to avoid crawl time 'waste'?
Should I make those pages in a specific folder and block through robots.txt?

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@BetL925

If you want to avoid loss of time for web-crawlers, you can put nofollow in robots meta tag for webpages which already have noindex but putting a rel="nofollow" in <a> tags in webpages links which link webpages with noindex in robots meta tag seems irrelevant to me.

rel="nofollow" tells to search engines that you can't trust on these links. There is no reason why you can't trust on webpages of your website.

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