Tags are great for getting more exposure and for finding interesting new blogs to follow.
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Tags are great for getting more exposure and for finding interesting new blogs to follow.
Just a few comments:
WordPress can show what tags are being written about most but is there anyway that it can show which tags are being read the most.
I also find when I tag some of my work, it doesn’t come up in my reader and this is only with a couple of tags attached.
Is there anyway to separate out normal tagging from generic section organising, it feels odd I have to use up tags just to sort out posts on my own blog, if you see what I mean?
Thank you for the reminder. I’ve re-checked my blogs and added a few. I’ve been using them for a while now but had no idea when I first started what they were. I love that you can go in and update them whenever you want to.
I don’t think my tagging has been very effective so far, even though I’m using all the tips and tricks. I’ve browsed the popular tags in my Reader to find which tags I could tap into to draw more traffic. I see tags like “blog,” “people” and “top stories” which don’t seem very descriptive to me. And there’s the tag “Yolanda Adams” (1,495 recent posts). Maybe I should write more about Yolanda Adams, whoever that is.
Thank you for your post.
I am still learning about wordpress and don’t have my tagging down. I didn’t know about the ‘magic 15′, good to know. Do tags also help it show up on google?
Cheers!
Typo?
“You can (???) any combination of tags and categories, as long as the total count doesn’t exceed the magic number 15.”
I find blogging, Bible, humour, humor, parenting and words are fairly popular tags. I imagine people use search engines for more specific subject matter. Sue
Ah, a missing word: “use.” Thanks for pointing that out — all fixed.
Tagging your posts in WordPress.com doesn’t have any influence over Google search rankings.
No secret tag that we’re aware of! :)
At the moment, there’s no way to find our which tags are being read most widely.
Searching your posts via tags and the Reader can be tricky at times. If there are a lot of posts using the same tag, you may need to do some scrolling to find your posts.
For general section organizing, I’d suggest using categories. Categories tend to be broader in scope, whereas tags are more specific to the topic at hand. For example, I use a category called Reading 2014 on one of my sites to organize all the books I’ve read so far this year. Tags you’ll find on my site alongside that category include book titles, book authors, as well as locations in some instances.