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Removing wordpress tags

by bodmov
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I'm in a process of changing my site, which ranks good on Google. I used some tags and no categories. What I want now is to remove my tags and make some directories. I know many people suggest that we noindex directories. I do not plan that, but would be interested to know what would you suggest. I also want to remove the tags, I'll just go and delete them from my existing posts, but wouldn't this be a problem, because they are already indexed. I rank with my posts, not tags, but still I'm not sure will it be a problem? Also do I have to noindex them and what else to do in order to make the things correct? Please let me know.
#removing #tags #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author LuckyIMer
    Removing the tags can affect your website a little bit, and if you remove them, then you should use robots.txt to remove them from index and from being followed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pdomain
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    If your website has excessive tags, removing tags will give good benefits from SEO. Make sure, the tag URLs are 301-redirected to home page or other relevant pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      You people have a complete misconception of what wordpress tags are.
      Not to mention what a 301, robots.txt, and noindex are actually for...
      Always makes me wonder....

      If you actually knew how to work wordpress, or even if you didn't, you'd
      be looking for help from wordpress. Don't they publish this stuff? Does anyone
      actually want to learn?

      You don't need tags or categories. You can delete tags globally. As if that
      mattered. You already admitted that ranking is by posts....

      No matter.

      The real solution is the same every time. Ditch wordpress.

      Create a real website. If you have a real business, that is.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author LuckyIMer
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        You people have a complete misconception of what wordpress tags are.
        Not to mention what a 301, robots.txt, and noindex are actually for...
        Always makes me wonder....

        If you actually knew how to work wordpress, or even if you didn't, you'd
        be looking for help from wordpress. Don't they publish this stuff? Does anyone
        actually want to learn?

        You don't need tags or categories. You can delete tags globally. As if that
        mattered. You already admitted that ranking is by posts....

        No matter.

        The real solution is the same every time. Ditch wordpress.

        Create a real website. If you have a real business, that is.

        Paul
        I developed many WordPress websites and certainly know what are tags, how to remove them and how to block from search and keep them on website for users. He want to deindex the tags, this can be done by either deleting them globally, but this will cause broken links on search engines, so he needs to also deindex them by using robots.txt, by adding the following code:


        Disallow: /tags/


        Or he can keep the tags if he think the website users need them and still deindex them from search engines by blocking them by robots.txt


        Also, blocking tags does matter and is useful in SEO, specially when the owner do not need them such as the OP case.

        Finally, WP is a real website script and many businesses and companies are using it, and many are switching to WP.
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        • Profile picture of the author Pdomain
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          Originally Posted by LuckyIMer View Post

          I developed many WordPress websites and certainly know what are tags, how to remove them and how to block from search and keep them on website for users. He want to deindex the tags, this can be done by either deleting them globally, but this will cause broken links on search engines, so he needs to also deindex them by using robots.txt, by adding the following code:


          Disallow: /tags/


          Or he can keep the tags if he think the website users need them and still deindex them from search engines by blocking them by robots.txt


          Also, blocking tags does matter and is useful in SEO, specially when the owner do not need them such as the OP case.

          Finally, WP is a real website script and many businesses and companies are using it, and many are switching to WP.

          No, the thing is getting SEO benefits from tags.... you can easily see tags rank in SERP means it is working for a targeted keyword....... at the same time, if you create too many tags, your site performance will be very bad... so creating a few tags that look natural and unique will help in getting some extra traffics from search engines.

          Why to use tags for user's experience, if you have put a search box on your website, anything is searched will result from your website...

          so main thing is getting some benefits from search engines thats it.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    The CMS isn't the problem, the problem is ranking pages then later changing the entire site structure & messing everything up.

    My advice is, If your not already ranking for decent traffic keywords, start over & this time get the sites structure correct before trying to rank a page.
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  • Profile picture of the author bodmov
    What I wanted was just to remove the tags. I meant, just to go to these posts that have existing tags, remove them and then publish the post again without tags.

    At the moment tags are indexed by Google, but they do not rank. I rank with my posts.So my questions were:

    - Will my ranking be hurt?
    - What signals to send to Google, because of the fact I remove tags, these are actually existing pages. Do I have to disallow tags in my robots or from my webmaster central, in case I won't have these anymore?
    - From standpoint of clients, I feel that adding categories will be much more better. At the moment my site doesn't have any categories and I plan to add some and upload the existing posts in these. Here my questions are do I have to disallow categories from robot, I know this questions has been asked many times? Next question is, is it true that if I upload a post in several categories Google will make me problems for duplicate content?

    Please help.
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  • Profile picture of the author clevelandslim
    Wordpress made noFollow default several revisions ago, I believe you can find a plugin that overides it at Wordpress.org.

    WordPress › Dofollow « WordPress Plugins

    Ling juice theory says your pages will leak away more incoming backlink benefits through doFollow outgoing links.
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  • Profile picture of the author npoint
    Leaks - the problem with wordpress is it waste the link juice of the backlinks.
    Try to use SILO plugin for wordpress, it`s not perfect but it`s better than nothing.
    Removing tags is not sufficient. Try to find some Bruce CLay`s articles about siloing - eye opening on this how link juice flows.
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