I’ve been blogging for around four years. And I’m ashamed to admit that for two of those years I didn’t know what I was doing when it came to the proper use of tags. Tags are the key words or phrases a blogger uses to help search engines find the content of a blog.
WordPress is my present hosting platform. There is a small box for tags to the right and below the new content box. It’s really a very user-friendly set up. The blogger types in the post, runs it through the grammar and spell check, types in the key word and phrases in the box for tags and then hits the publish button. No muss and no fuss. The only problem is the tags won’t do any good if the key words and phrases are not in the body of the published content.
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I would concentrate on my post, giving great attention to structure, proper English and all those other things. Then when it came time to pick the tags I would pick words that were shocking, sexy, bold and confrontational. Stuff I was sure guaranteed that the search engines could not possibly pass up my content. And the search engines would not have passed up my content if the key words had been in the post. My post would be 200 words long and it would have 80 tags, most of which had nothing to do with the content.
For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why my blog was getting only a few hits.
Well, I’m the studious type.
By constantly reading other blogs and articles about blogging I finally figured out that key words had to be taken directly from the text of the post.
For those of you who figured this out in the very beginning, I hope this article gave you a good laugh. For those of you who are blogging challenged like I am, I’m glad I could help out.
I didn’t much understand this but for a change I enjoyed the pop-up commercial.
Nice one…
Good advice as usual.
Ok guy informative would bear this in mind & thxs for the share .
You’ve certainly helped me out, Guy. A very useful post.
Christine
You\’ve certainly helped me out, Guy. A very useful post.
Christine
I picked up some pointers to fanks
I didn\’t know this, thanks!
Hehehe… great one Guy, I always use the words in my content, I did read about it somewhere when I first started!
Excellent advice! This is definately something I’ll keep a check on with my own blog now, perhaps I’ll go back and look over the tags I have used on my previous posts having read this too.
Great stuff as always,
Jumbo
ken, the same thing goes for poets. I’ve read poetry on this site where some of the tags had nothing to do with the poem.
Teves, a lot of new bloggers don’t know this and some veteran bloggers don’t know it. It took me a couple of years to realize what I was doing wrong.
Great article with very helpful advice. Thanks for sharing.
Great read!
Great Article Man! Keep Up the great work!
I certainly was ignorant to this point. I thought tags were just for catagory placement
Thank you very much
Good points!
Like Snooky above I too thought they were for category placement. Now we’re all enlightened, thanks for that.
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How true. I surprised you didn’t know that, Guy, being so blog savvy that you are. Well, I feel better. lol. (I’m such an airhead.)
Guy, I was told to use minimal tags on my blog as they clutter it up. What do I know?
Guy I used to think the same, For some reason I hate putting tags in. However its well worth the pain..
That’s why you need to add a keyword to the text at least three times for SEO
thanks for the tip … i didnt know that … it does make sense of course but who woulda thunk it ? >>> Gina
very useful information
Another big idea. Thanks for the share my friend.
Hi, Guy, thanks for sharing. I don’t know about blogging yet. I just started my Blogger a week ago. This article of yours helps me a lot on what to do on tags. I’ve yet to familiarize the layout, the functionalities, etc….
Even till now, I’m still at a loss with tagging.
Very well like me. When I got serious with blogging, I read a lot about keywords and its proper distribution on your content. The key is to stratigically place keywords within your title, in the first paragraph, a litlle in between, and in the last paragraph. However, never spam your content with the same keywords.
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