Tags to index or to no index that is the Question

[onlinemediadirect]

Sorry for the silly Shakespearean introduction but what are peoples opinions on leaving tag clouds to be indexed or no indexable by the search engines.

I tend to leave them non indexable at the moment. I use wordpress for blogging as do most others.

[Dan-Petrovic]

I heard Matt Cutts once talk about tag clouds as not necessary and the fact that Google 'gets it' without it. I say if you're linking to something do it contextually for maximum link benefit.

[blu42media]

If your tag pages are offering up some fresh content... either by their presentation that will get around duplicate content issues or fresh content of value to your visitors, then you should go ahead and leave them as indexable.

If not, and you're in a fully-automatic mode with your template, I would suggest "noindex,follow" to provide more internal connections and to keep the link juice flowing