indexing of random content

[RFH Reseller: nick]

Right, I have some pages that display random items. Lets say the page is for blue widgets and it shows 20 out of 100 random blue widgets. Is there any benefit in telling robots to 'noindex'?

I will be creating pages that list all the widgets as well, in the same way a site map lists all pages.

ooh arr.
cheers

[RFH Customer: cswd]

Good reasons for doing this:

• It stops google cache caching one version of the page so if someone hits the cache they won't see some out of date manky blue widgets.
• It stops the little mites raping your server (which they do periodically on mine anyway!)

Bad reasons for doing this:

• Search engines LOVE pages that change. They wet their panties sometimes because they love it so much.

I've so got to do some paid work today...

[RFH Reseller: nick]

I think for now I'm going to allow the spidies to index the pages, but I'll stick a noarchive meta tag in there.

[RFH Customer: cswd]

Good plan!