Question

Can someone confirm if this is ok, or shoot on it if it's not? :) >>> In order to be congruent in my google ads campaign I want to go all out on landingpages, but all these landingpages shouldn't be visible on site. Yet, they do need to be indexed for SEO and live/accesible for SEA/PPC. I'm just wondering if having 10 to 15 hidden landingpages without having them visible on site is a bad idea? Will Google find this overdone or is it no problem? normally most landingpages are visible and can be found by nagivation on site, but for this client it's not ideal as the website is very clean and focussed. yet i do want to optimize on lp experience. What's your opinion? thanks! :)

Answer 1

We do not index the landing pages for SEO purposes.  

Answer 2

Of course, it is OK. It's a common situation.  

Answer 3

@raynell9, @penicillin So it's not ok, because?  

Comments

@nato10 sorry, my answer was wrong. It's OK about PPC. It's not OK to allow G to index those pages for SEO purposes

Answer 4

I mean they are accesible and all, you just cannot navigate to them via normal site navigation.  

Comments

@nato10 It's OK.  

Answer 5

Internal links impact SEO, so having no possible way to reach them will make them less viable.  Building landing pages and noindexing them is very common for PPC.  

Answer 6

Ah gotcha, just a noindex for seo, thanks! cheers guys

Comments

@nato10 Exactly

Answer 7

For ppc is not important it's your LP crawlable or not. You can no index it too. But if you LP is slow in loading (and this is still SEO parameter) that could be problem. Visibilty for robots is not something you need to worry about.  

Answer 8

Not an issue at all.  

Answer 9

Listen, your PPC landing pages shouldn't be ranking for SEO anyway. Your PPC landing pages should be designed for conversion. Your regular website pages should be designed for SEO. A SEO optimised page is going to look a lot different than a conversion optimised page. So keep them separate, build on a sub domain.