Should links in headers and footers be set to noindex?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Adam John Humphreys: Index because it’s all crawled. The links in the header and footer should also be appropriately labeled. “Home” is not a proper description of a page. Why not rank for the brand or something with an additional contextual link?
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  Ian Warner: Adam John Humphreys thanks for your reply. My menu is in my header and footer. The links are labeled Home. Gallery etc. You advise not to use these. I can`t see how I could do this as it would make my menu extremely long.
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  Adam John Humphreys: Use more appropriate descriptions of the pages a person is looking for on Google.
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  Rienzi Mosqueda: Why would you even consider doing that?
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  Ian Warner: Rienzi Mosqueda why would I consider indexing or not indexing?
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  Rienzi Mosqueda: Ian Warner not indexing. we are talking links in the navigations yeah?
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  Ian Warner: Rienzi Mosqueda yes
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  Sean Piper: oof
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  Rienzi Mosqueda: Ian Warner navigations are what tell google the pages on your site that are important to your website. So only put what`s important and leave them alone.
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  Rienzi Mosqueda: Sean Piper oof?
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  Adam John Humphreys: Worth more, images on a banner should be linked to the page and not the image itself unless you want the image specifically to index for whatever reason. I generally include header (hero) images in the CSS. Note, Imagify doesn’t compress images and opt…
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  Richard Hearne: NOINDEX is a page-level directive??? How can you set it on headers/footers?
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  Ian Warner: Richard Hearne I`m using Beaver Builder header footer plug-in. It creates a page for the header and footer. Using Rank Math you can set the page to index or no index.
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  Richard Hearne: I`m not sure you can be certain what adding NOINDEX to those pages will do for every page they appear on.Are those pages available on public URLs?…
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  Will King: You can`t noindex html elements. If you try you`ll probably noindex the entire page
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  Jay Michael Raffa: Lmao
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  Scott Hendison: No they should not.
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  Adam John Humphreys: All the links contained there in will be ignored.