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Should I exclude the tag pages? Or should I go ahead and keep them indexed? Is there a general opinion on this topic?

Thank you both.

To clarify, there is no loss of page rank or anything? It seems the extra link counts on the SEOmoz toolbar and that confuses me. If you have 3 links on the page to the same URL why doesn't the tool only count it as one link?

Thank you all for the replies.

@Dunamis, my concern is that if I use the canonical tag for the article then how would a search engine understand the canonical represents the article and not the comments. There can be great discussion within the comments. If the search engine canonalizes the who page and sends users to the target URL then they will send traffic to that site for comments which do not exist on that site. Or if they discount my page all together then the page wont get indexed even though there are some good comments and discussion which otherwise should be indexed.

@Ryan, thank you for reminding me about having a link in the article. That is something I otherwise forgot about but will do in the future.

@Theo, if I had an article on my site which is canonicalized to a URL on another site, and then someone links to the page on my site, do I get credit for the link? I would think the link credit goes through to the canonicalized URL would it not?

Hi, I wrote a blog article on another site. I would like to add the article to my site as well and would like to know the best way to do it.

If I duplicate the article that I wrote would I then risk getting a penalty for duplicate content?

If so, then what is the best way for me to include the article on my site for the benefit of my readers, but not lead to the duplicate content problem?

Would it be better to use a canonical tag? Or to noindex the page?

If I use the canonical tag, am I helping to make the article on the external blog stronger? Where is I use the noindex tag I am not helping my site nor that article I think, is that right?

Last question, if I offer the copy of the article on my site and use the canonical or noindex tag then my site does not receive any direct benefit from the article for SEO. In other words the article wont appear in the search index with a link to my site. What about the comments that people write on the article on my site? That is unique content which may have great questions or points. I want to ensure those can be indexed properly. If I noindex the page I lose out. If I canonicalize (is that a word?) the page then I don't know if will send search results based on those comments to the external blog where that information (the comments from my site) does not exist.

Thank you for any help to better understand this part of seo.

Hi. I wanted to ask about having multiple text links to an internal page from the same page.

So I have a section title on my home page which will vary with each article. It may say "Healthiest Cat Foods" as the title then offer a snippet and finally offer a "continue reading..." anchor text.

The title is a great link to the article while the "continue reading..." is another link to the same article. I like the to keep the title link because it is perfect anchor text. I like to keep the "continue reading..." because it seems helpful for users.

I have read that search engines will only count the first link to an article which is fine as I only want the first one to count anyway. What I am wondering is do I lose any page rank because I added the second link? Does that second link hurt me in any way?