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RayW

14 years ago

I'm not sure but I don't think they have any effect on SEO, or at least that's been my experience.

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Alex Barboza

14 years ago

They can make a diffrence in the idexing process. I used to use tags clouds in my blog and the posts got indexed quite fast but I don't like the fact that too much link power is flowing from all my pages to tag pages, so I decided to remove them.

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officer_iron

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alex Barboza

They can make a diffrence in the idexing process. I used to use tags clouds in my blog and the posts got indexed quite fast but I don't like the fact that too much link power is flowing from all my pages to tag pages, so I decided to remove them.

Both of your points are right on. When you use tags, you are creating a separate page for each of those tags, which will inlude a link back to any posts containing that tag. This helps out in getting the post indexed because there are essentially all of these different pages linking back to your post.

But you are also correct in the fact that it can drain your internal link juice. Since each tag creates its own page, each tag on every page is another link pointing to a seperate page.

For example, if on your main page, you have 15 internal links that you want your link juice distributed through. If you have a tag cloud with 45 tags, your link juice will be distributed through all 60 internal links instead of just the 15 important ones.

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Kevin pitt

14 years ago

They are helpful for the indexing purpose.they provide the separate page for he website which is valuable for the link value.it bring the jink juice with the creation of an each page.