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Pinterest could simply tell robots to 'noindex,follow' the page to help search engines understand there is no utility in it appearing for a search. But agree, p
by ricardo81 3y ago
Pinterest could simply tell robots to 'noindex,follow' the page to help search engines understand there is no utility in it appearing for a search. But agree, perhaps it shouldn't rank first anyway.
Guess it depends on whether it's UGC entirely or whether the CMS could note these kind of pages. Again, shouldn't be hard if it's just a simple link as the main content of the page.
- data-ottawa 3y agoWhy would Pinterest do that? They’ve conquered image search SEO, and I expect most sites on the internet want to play as greedily as possible. Google are the ones who should be looking at the situation and asking if this is the state they really want.
- ricardo81 3y agoThere's precedent that would make it in Pinterest's best interest. IIRC Google's "Panda" algo update basically wiped out search referrals to certain content farms overnight, can't recall specific examples but there were some at the time. They were labelled as low quality and subsequently faded into obscurity. //added EHow is an example of a site that was flagged