No follow in Blogs

[TravG]

I have a blog on my website and I use a noidex metatag for the archives and category tags to avoid dup content.
Since I'm using a noindex, does google know not to give link priority to these pages? Basically every page in the blog links to the archive and category tags and I dont want google to make sitelinks for these pages.
Will the noindex take care of that or should I use a nofollow on the links to these pages?
Thanks!

[learn2holdem]

It is important to consider do follow blogs when you do blog posting or blog commenting, because you can easily get quality backlinks from it. It is also important to use relevant keywords to easily get traffic.

Where is the spam squad today?

[baldidiot]

I have a blog on my website and I use a noidex metatag for the archives and category tags to avoid dup content.
Since I'm using a noindex, does google know not to give link priority to these pages? Basically every page in the blog links to the archive and category tags and I dont want google to make sitelinks for these pages.
Will the noindex take care of that or should I use a nofollow on the links to these pages?
Thanks!

This is just speculation but... By linking (with or without the nofollow tag) to a noindex page you are possibly losing link juice. The linked page would still get the credit, but without being indexed would not be able to pass it back to other pages on your site.

A better option would be to use the rel=canonical tag, and remove the noindex tags.

(this is just a guess though...)

[TravG]

That is a good suggestion, is there a plug in for wordpress that does this by chance?

[davemerry]

I agree with baldidiot here.

There is a plugin here http://yoast.com/wordpress/canonical/ which I have been meaning to put in my personal blog for a while. May be of use to you however not tested yet.

Cheers,
Dave

[JoeAdams]

<meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Win32)"><style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> “no follow” tags on your site only affects outgoing links from your site. It tells the search engine not to follow any outgoing links. “do follow and “no follow” tags are important depending on the purpose of your blog. For SEO like me, “do follow” tags on our blogs have a very significant value.