What headers/META headers should I be using for an infinite link system like a calendar?

Question

I have a web calendar, all my own work. It works fine. But I see in the logs a bunch of search indexers go round and round and round trying to chase every link. It could go forward to the year 3000 month by month and day by day. I don't think the indexers should follow this as it doesn't serve much purpose. What HTTP headers or META headers should I apply to the calendar to let them know it is a calendar, but they shouldn't follow every link on those pages?

Answer 1

Use rel="nofollow" on all links that you don't want spiders to follow or index (i.e. days, months, etc.).

Use robots.txt to specify paths that you want them to ignore.

If your site is a web application, consider using robots.txt to disallow indexing of the whole app with:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Answer 2

Probably simply <a rel='nofollow' ... on the calendar navigation links (as opposed to the events that link to specific events) would be fine.