No follow links on a blog
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Hi
On our blog, we have a section called 'Tags'. I have just noticed that these links are all "no follow" links.
The tags section does appear on every single page on the blog - is this recommend to have them as 'no follow' links or should I get our developer to change them.
Thanks
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Tags are basically lists of posts with a common theme - some sites automatically create tags, but commonly bloggers would add these into the CMS.
Ideally, tags are kind of an extension of "categories" and often are similar to these in the way they are presented, but while posts appear on one or two categories, tagged posts can appear on many tag pages. As such tag pages could result in a lot of duplicate content on a blog, and for many years now I and others have been advocating noindexing tag pages (good SEO plugins would do this for you) and to no follow links to tags - which sounds like the type of implementation you have.
Unless you are 100% sure that your tagged pages dont create too much duplicate content, I would leave them nofollowed, as I have seen them do more harm than good.
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