Blog Tag Clouds, Should they have rel="nofollow"? Options

[lee.n3o]

I am doing a bit of development recently and part of which is going to be creating a tag cloud for a personal app... I was thinking about Blogs in general, and the amount of duplicate content they can produce with things like tag clouds etc...

Do you think adding rel="nofollow" to all the links in the clould would be a good move?


This post has been edited by lee.n3o: May 16 2007, 08:02 AM

[bragadocchio]

I don't like the use of the nofollow value for internal links within a site. If a search engine uses "nofollow" in a link as a sign of distrust, then there's the potential to harm your site by using a rel="nofollow" within a link.

Besides, not all search engines use the nofollow value, and the ones that do are inconsistent in how they use it.

If possible, and you want to avoid duplicate content issues, could you set up the URLs so that if someone clicks on a cloud tag item, that those links could be easily disallowed in robots.txt? That's the approach that I would suggest.

[lee.n3o]

Ahh haaa... Thanks Bill... I'll see if I can work with that idea