Recently I've came across the question that: what happens if you label a page as "noindex" + "follow" ? I know that "noindex" is used to tell the search engine : "I don't want you to index my page" but what happens if you set "follow" instead of "no follow"? Does it have any drawbacks or negative repercusions in ranking?
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If Googlebot crawls a noindex,follow page it will not add the page to the index, but it will add the links on it to its "to crawl" list. So links on a noindex page may be discovered that way and crawled later.
It's not a 100% reliable way to get Google to crawl links on a noindex page or to give those linked to pages credit because of the link. Google will over time pay less attention to a noindex page and any information it provides.
Note that you don't need to specify follow, it is the default behaviour.
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