Comments on: How To Use Wordpress Tags Properly…

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:46:27 +0000

Hey Jason,

Thanks for the advice. I’m still getting to grips with Wordpress after moving across from static pages that I created on Dreamweaver.

I had a site that had several posts on page 1 of Google. Making some decent commissions…

and then…

I added a heap of tags to each post. BIG MISTAKE. My posts went down to around 500 on Google therefore losing all of my commissions. BOO HOO. I have now trimmed down the tags to 2 to 3 to each post now.

On my Google webmasters account, the internal links are up the creak, dispersing page rage all over the place. I am trying to find a way to the get the tags de-indexed on Google but I don’t think it’s that easy. I have blocked the Google robots from crawling my indexed tags too.

I HOPE that over time Google will not crawl the old tags now and my site will rise again.

Great post though.

All the best
Martin

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:36:28 +0000

It would make sense to plan out the site topics, tags, and architecture before writing posts.

At least from an SEO standpoint.

But in practice it’s often difficult to stick to a plan like that over the long haul.

By: Billee Brady

Billee Brady — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:59:53 +0000

Ok….. So I should have a set of tags for my blog basically and sort of do content around my tags? Is that correct???

That is very interesting! Thanks for the advice!
Billee Brady

By: Richard Kaulfers

Richard Kaulfers — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:54:25 +0000

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Cheryl — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:12:12 +0000

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By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:15:19 +0000

Hey Hanna,

And thank you for dropping in.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:10:29 +0000

Hey Twila,

Just tags on each post.

It’s totally cool to have hundreds of keywords
on your site. Each page can focus on it’s own even.

But keep in mind that tags are slightly different.

It’s okay to have a load of tags, but make sure that you use
them on multiple posts or you end up with duplicate content.
Which is almost never a good thing with Google.

The major thing to note here is…

Never use a tag once.

So some planning has to be involved.

So if you tag an article today with “Networking”
make sure you write another post in the future to tag
with “networking” too.

As for getting rid of tags used once…

Until I find a widget that does it… and there are
supposedly a few…

You basically have to go into every single post and
click the “x” mark on the tags.

Very time consuming… unfortunately. I’ll be looking
at some plugins hopefully this month.

By: Hanna Scheid

Hanna Scheid — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:42:50 +0000

Thanks for the comments about tags. I really need to learn more about all the techno-internet stuff.
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By: Twila Jacobs

Twila Jacobs — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:25:29 +0000

I’ve read this post and comments daily since it was posted and I keep coming back to this because I’m still a little confused and need a bit of clarification.

1) Are you referring to tags or keywords used on each individual post or TOTAL tags used on one’s blog.

2) Still not clear on how to get rid of the ones that have only been used once or twice

At this point my blog shows I have used a total of 82 keywords….this is bad, yes?

Thanks,
Twila