Tag Words / Keyword Spamming

[cameron]

I'm adding a tag feature to a few of my sites so that I can link together various items on the site through common words. I'm planning on having the tags listed on each page, and I just got to thinking that it will just look like a big list of keywords. Would search engines possibly view it as spam?

[Emancipator]

so in articles your going to take words like "sports drink" and link it to another one of your siteS? I used a similar tagging system on one of my sites without a problem.

[Chris]

Or like the autolinking feature (re adsense ) here?

[cameron]

More like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/

There won't be as many keywords like on that page. For example, on a page with a skateboarding picture there would be something like this:
Tags - skateboarding, san fransico, kickflip, stairs, john doe

Tagging and tag clouds are becoming pretty popular, so hopefully it's not seen as spammy by search engines.

[ozgression]

I think it depends on how it is done. A bigger site like flickr may get away with it, whereas a little guy like you is more likely to be punished, IMHO.

[Emancipator]

yeah chris hit on what i am talking about.

[Giles]

Anyone know any CMS or script software that has tagging built in. I am planning on using something like that and the modifying it to make a project I've been thinking about.