What if "index,follow" is only in the index page?

[jamesx521]

As I'll be in the process of building a website with many pages in which the main META info will be in the index page, I keep wondering if it makes any sense to waste time putting META info in the rest of the pages? The rest of the pages will probably have little or no keywords and will mostly be just images. So, if I put "noindex,nofollow" in the META for the rest of the pages, would that hurt my search engine ranking?

Thanks.

[felgall]

noindex,nofollow means that the page containing it will not be listed by the search engine at all and the search engine will not follow any links on the page looking for other pages to list. Telling the search engine not to list pages will hurt your search engine ranking for that page as it ensures that the page is not listed anywhere. The nofollow part may also hurt the rankings for other pages since the search engine may not find those other pages to list them.

[Charles]

But to answer your question, if someone links to your sub-pages and a spider follows that link the spider wont necessarily know not to index it. Better to use robots.txt.

[seo_promotion]

If you submit your website sitemap to Google webmaster account then you will receive errors for not adding any description TAG.

You should try to optimize your images for specific keyword. It will help you gain visitors directly from Google image search.