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Tags in Wordpress

by redstanford
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i have been working on some wordpress blogs of mine since January. i have been using the All-in-One SEO. on every post of mine, i add whatever keywords are relevant to that post in the All In One SEO.

however i have been staring at "tags" on my post editors and don't know how to use this feature. do i still need to add tags to a post if i am already adding keywords to the All-In-One SEO plugin?

what tags should i include if a post is about whynter wine cooler?

thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Dybka
    Originally Posted by redstanford View Post

    i have been working on some wordpress blogs of mine since January. i have been using the All-in-One SEO. on every post of mine, i add whatever keywords are relevant to that post in the All In One SEO.

    however i have been staring at "tags" on my post editors and don't know how to use this feature. do i still need to add tags to a post if i am already adding keywords to the All-In-One SEO plugin?

    what tags should i include if a post is about whynter wine cooler?

    thanks in advance.
    You don't need to put to many in there,just your targeting keywords for that post
    whynter
    wine cooler
    whynter cooler

    and any other keyword your targeting.


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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    Categories and tags are WordPress' filing system. They're the way you can file and keep related articles together and, as such, help both people and the search engines to find their way around your site.

    More details here:

    Optimise WordPress with Categories and Tags | WealthyDragon

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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    • Profile picture of the author Not New
      Originally Posted by Abledragon View Post

      Categories and tags are WordPress' filing system. They're the way you can file and keep related articles together and, as such, help both people and the search engines to find their way around your site.

      More details here:

      Optimise WordPress with Categories and Tags | WealthyDragon

      Cheers,

      Martin.
      I have gone through your extremely useful WordPress Blogging for Newbies tutorial. I am setting up WP sites and found your resource very useful, thanks.

      I am unable to find a solution for one of the issues I am facing. I have structured my site a bit differently. Each post is categorized and tagged. The tags are universal to all the categories i.e. let say my categories are A to D and my tags are from 1 to 6. Each category may use these tags depending upon the post.

      I am displaying respective posts for each category under each menu item. So far so good. Here is my problem :-

      A I don't know how to display posts with common tags at one place. Other than creating additional categories and marking each post for 2 different categories.

      B If I display, and then I am creating duplicate content. The only method I can think is to mark one of the page/url as noindex but then I am loosing the SEO juice for that url/page.

      I will appreciate your guidance and help.
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      • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
        Originally Posted by Not New View Post

        A I don't know how to display posts with common tags at one place. Other than creating additional categories and marking each post for 2 different categories.
        If I understand your question correctly, your tag archives pages will do this. If you have a tag cloud then clicking one of the tags in the cloud will turn up a page listing all the articles with that tag. Your WordPress settings enable you to define whether or not you want the articles displaid with excerpts.

        If your theme enables you to display tags (as opposed to categories) at the end of your articles then clicking on a tag there will also take visitors to the listing of all articles with the same tag.

        Originally Posted by Not New View Post

        B If I display, and then I am creating duplicate content. The only method I can think is to mark one of the page/url as noindex but then I am loosing the SEO juice for that url/page.
        The same content on the same site accessed via different urls is not duplicate content. However, you should use the canonical tag and noindex your other archives (other than tags and categories) to preserve as much link juice as possible. More details here:

        Duplicate Content on WordPress | WealthyDragon

        If I've misunderstood your question (highly possible!) let me know,

        Cheers,

        Martin.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    Only if there is a valid reason to do so... for example your Blog uses a Tag Cloud to help people find things, or you are using a plugin that crawls tags to display some other kind of content.

    If you write correctly you don't even need to put them in All in One SEO. Google crawls content and largely ignores the other information (at least that is what they claim). But there is nothing as useful as testing.
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