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Are Tags Considered a Page? SEO Help

by Latsyrc
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I've been adding tags to my blog posts for SEO. I've seen that my tags are indexed. I usually write multiple short blog posts that are tagged with the same thing (think coupon posts that would normally be short on content). The reason I do this is because sometimes the tags are not something I would normally label as a category because it is a long tailed keyword.

So when Google sees my "tag", is Google looking at ALL of those blog posts as "1 page" that are tagged with the same thing? I hope I am making sense. Thanks.

Update: Maybe y'all can tell me what I should do. One of the examples is in my signature. I would like to rank for baby deals. I have a category for baby because that category has content in it unrelated to deals. I am not sure what is the best route to do this. I am trying to make one of those mommy deal blog sites, which is why it is not just SEO for baby deals.
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  • Profile picture of the author InitialEffort
    Tag pages = big no no if you have them set to index rather than noindex, nofollow as it creates a lot of onsite duplicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimmyn
    Yeah, each individual tag will have it's own page containing posts with that tag. Then sub pages (tag/page2) depending on your settings for posts per page.

    You can find good uses for them, they don't always have to be noindex.
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    It depends on how your theme is setup.

    If the tag pages are showing the full post content instead of just an excerpt or something, you'll have problems.

    Best practice - is to noindex the tags, date and author archives. Use the Wordpress SEO by Yoast.

    In cases where it makes sense to leave tags as indexed, such as when tags are only method of navigation, then you should have the post content be limited to the first paragraph only or just "the_excerpt".
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    • Profile picture of the author Latsyrc
      Maybe y'all can tell me what I should do. One of the examples is in my signature. I would like to rank for baby deals. I have a category for baby because that category has content in it unrelated to deals. I am not sure what is the best route to do this. I am trying to make one of those mommy deal blog sites, which is why it is not just SEO for baby deals.
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  • Profile picture of the author JeanneLynn
    How do you noindex the tags?
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  • Profile picture of the author Latsyrc
    Just wanted to say I updated the original post so someone could tell me what they would do.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimmyn
    You should be able to give each tag its own description, i know you can do this on Wordpress. I'd add some good content in the description section, then display excerpts on the tag page. Then depending on your theme it should display the description at the top of the page, with all the relevant posts below it.

    I wouldn't say baby deals is a long tail keyword though.
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    • Profile picture of the author Latsyrc
      Thank you Jimmyn, I will look that up on Wordpress. Yeah it isn't really a long tail keyword. I am just not sure if I should put that as a tag or a category since I have a baby category. It is so difficult when I build general niche sites because I get confused. When I make very specific niche sites it is easier for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    No, Google will not consider your blog posts as one page. Google, somehow is capable of differentiating between pages and posts, no matter with what thing they are linked with.
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  • Profile picture of the author SeoKnightsInc
    Recently tag are devalued by Google so they make no difference if you put the tags there.

    Tags do create a page but it is useless as it makes more duplicate content on your site for which WP is already famous. Also i had found in my blog the tag i used were De-indexed after few weeks.

    A better approach for tag is to create a description summary for that tag to bring some unique content to tag page.

    Tags also dilute the link juice and most of it is wasted in tags which rarely ranks. So its better to make them no follow and then you will see how high your internal pages rank as all your link juice is followed to them.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimmyn
    Not sure about these last two posts....

    Another thing you can do, which works better on planning a new site than it does on an already established one, is to change the tag, or category slug to something more relevant to your site.

    E.G. if it was a site about books, you could change the category slug to something like genre, and the tag slug in the url to something like author.
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