Rahul Chauhan: there is no need to add noindex to them, all you have to do is just make sure that these are not copied.
Jon Tromans: I leave them as normal but I can't see it hurting or helping if they got noinexed. I highly doubt it would make much difference.
Tony McCreath: I tend to noindex as they have no value in the search results so only dilute a websites content with off topic info. But then I think Google ;is clever enough to categoise these sorts of pages.
Martino Mosna: only duplicates truly needs a noindex. Privacy or legal pages are not an issue.
Martino Mosna: on the other hand: what if some lawyer finds out that you removed your privacy statement from search engine results? Hiding privacy & legal, albeit from search results only, is not a good idea form this point of view.
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Tony McCreath: I like the idea of making them interesting.
The no indexing was based on a concern that small websites with only a few pages would get their subject matter diluted with the off topic babble that these site wide linked pages have.
I think Google classifies these pages well so my conclusion is to forget the noindex and trust Google (and other search engines).
Maybe there should be a schema.org type for these web pages?
Jon Tromans: Thinking about it a bit more it wouldn't hurt to treat them like shopping checkout pages which I usually noindex...
Should a Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions be noindexed?
