: Should I tag bad content with noindex? I have a site with a lot of use generated content. Users can down and upvote content of other users. Ratings can be negative. More or less SE style.

@Sarah324

Here is what type of pages I will noindex.


Pages that have no answers.
Pages that have duplicate question.


I don't think, you should noindex all negative posts, may be someone don't like that question, and click on negative ranks, but it does not mean that page contain bad/low quality content.
You should read this PDF from Google., you will get many hints, about good content.

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@Berumen354

definitely yes. You can avoid crawling of bad content also. Google also provide crawling options based on url parameters , specific path( based on robots.txt)

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