No index directory pages?

[JSOC]

All,

I have a  site built on WordPress with directory software (edirectory) on the backend that houses a directory of members. The Wordpress portion of the site is full of content and drives traffic through to the directory. Like most directories, the results pages are thin on content and mainly contain links to member profiles.

Is it best to simply no index the search results for the directory portion of the site?

[JamesNorquay]

You could utilise the canonical tags on these pages and point them to rich content related pages, or if you do not want to you could just no index the files in robots.txt.

[JSOC]

Thanks James. So, if it were you, you would not simply let the pages be crawled without utilizing one of the tactics mentioned above?

[EricaMcGillivray]

Thin content is something penalized by Google's Panda, and to avoid it, definitely use James' suggestions depending on what you want from your site.