: Can I benefit from links to pages on my site which have a `noindex` meta tag? I'm trying to understand if/how I can benefit from people linking to pages on my site which are with pages that

@Gloria169

If you have NOINDEX meta tag on your page it is not good idea to put inner page links to it, because this link juice will be lost.

Search engines are disabled to index the pages, so neither canonical, nor robots.txt disallow removing will help there, if you have NOINDEX meta tag.

The best way I see here it is to ask people to link to your main pages, that are opened for indexing, or to open the pages for indexing and pour the link juice to the pages you need to be ranked well.

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@BetL925

If people link to some pages of your site, it probably mean these pages can be useful for users and thus they may be indexed by search engines to be find by everyone. That's why I think you should consider to remove the noindex tag for these pages and using an other method to fix the problem for what you put the noindex tag for these pages.

With two methods you quoted, you're trying to manipulate the link juice and it can be a bad indicator for search engines.

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