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Another Line in the Water
I was doing some checking back and forth between the settings for one of the Tucson blogs and the Lab and noticed I had the option about no index tabs checked for the Lab and unchecked for the Tucson Blog. I mentioned two days ago about those tags being indexed in Google for that blog.
I looked at the explanation for not indexing tabs and it said “Check this for excluding tag pages from being crawled. Useful for avoiding duplicate content.”
This might be a legitamite concern and the author states on the plugin page itself this is helpful if you are having duplicate content issues. However, I have the Tucson blog set up to display excerpts not full post text when returning a search on tags. I think this should deal with any concerns about duplicate content. I’m open to suggestions and differing opinions on this issue.
I’m not suggesting you turn this option on or off. I’ve never seen tags indexed until recently. I have stated on numerous occasions I consider each post and search result a line in the water to attract readers and potential buyers and sellers. If they happen upon one of my sites by clicking on a tag search so be it. I can’t tell you how many times in my life I was looking for something entirely different when something else I was looking for popped up in a search. I bookmark those and come back. So I’m inclined to want my tags indexed.
However, I use tags judiciously. I don’t put a lot of them in each post. I select tags which I think are keywords to the post and post topic. If I make an off handed remark in a post about something that might generate traffic but it is not specific to the topic I don’t include it as a tag.
Anybody wanting to weigh in on indexed tags here is the opportunity.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Freddie (11 comments.) // Oct 1, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I wasn’t really familiar with this, but I am with you and will continue to allow the tags to be indexed. Come to think about it, I don’t really use tags on my Flagship site…maybe I will.
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2 Emily in Austin (1 comments.) // Oct 5, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I definitely try not to overdo it with tags as well. A few strong keywords seem to be enough, especially if the article itself has plenty of keywords. It irks me when I see a blog post that has 15 tags — it almost seems like an act of desperation for SEO. And I do worry about penalization from Google, though maybe I’m giving their robots too much credit
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