The Secrets Behind Post Tags
I see many discussions on forums, blogs and social media about the use of tags in blog posts. Most people can’t figure out what is the deal with post tags, while others are already getting benefits of using them right.
Post tags are keywords that should describe what a blog post is about. If you write a post about how to wash your car the tags should be: “car wash” and “cars”. The use of tags is straightforward and anyone can figure out what tags to use for the blog post he just wrote.
- Post Tags
To take advantage of their power you should know how to use post tags. Let me explain physically what post tags are in WordPress.
WordPress creates a page for every tag you add to your blog. The thinking behind these is that if you visitors see a nice post on your blog about link building that is tagged accordingly, he may want to read all post about that subject. He will click on the tag link and he will be directed to a page that contains all your blog posts about “link building”.
It is a good thing for usability, but it is also good for SEO. How can tags improve my SEO? Since a new page is created for every tag that you use, and in that page all articles containing that tag are listed, you end up having more pages and more important you crosslink your relevant articles. That will give your articles a good SEO boost as more popular articles are linked with less popular ones.
You lose a great deal of link juice if you don’t use post tags properly.
The foulness of SEO plug ins. Most SEO plug ins are set by default to put no index on tag pages. This means that your link between articles is broken and search engines will not follow it and will not credit it. Why they think that way? If you assign a tag to a single blog post you may end up having two pages with similar content, and Google will ignore one. To prevent this, you should set your blog to show only summaries on the homepage. This setting will affect the tag, archive and search pages too, so you don’t have to worry about duplicate content.
So, don’t be afraid to use tags in your posts, describe what your post is about to help people and search engines to see the relations between your content.
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Excellent Post. Not every one uses the power of tag feature. I am also getting some traffic on my tags. It is very useful post.
Glad that you are already using post tags wisely on your blog, Hope you will reach more traffic flow on your blog.
Thanks for a comment…
Thank you. If you search on google with site:yoursite.com and a keyword you’ve used as a tag you will notice that the tag page is ranking very high for that keyword, but this if you don’t have tag pages blocked by some SEO plugin.
Awesome post bro. Yeah, i agree with your points man. Thanks a lot for haring. Have fun.
Thanks for a cool comment bro…
Great article
Thanks for sharing
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Lucian
Great topic – covered well! Tags are incredibly powerful tools to use correctly! I was just reviewing with and associate how Google re-visits the tags you use in your articles every time they visit. So as you build content around that tag Google loves you and sees you as an authority. Thanks for the great info – Vijay love your blog.
Be your best
Glenn
hey should i include tags in sitemap?
Sorru if m going off track!
Anyone to help me out plz ????
If you use any automated sitemap generator it should already include tag pages into your sitemap, if you do it manually you should add them as childs for the homepage.
Of course a great article and I think, I want to check my blog for no index for tags.
informative article… thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome
Great Lucian Apostol ,
By tags visitors can find the related posts of blog in a single page and it will make our blog more visitor friendly. Thank for making some awareness of tags among blogger.
Thanks vijay for making this blog available to me.
Thanks for your comment mate…