Using WordPress tags on your blog can greatly increase your viewership, and get your blog noticed on search engines. However, many bloggers are still unaware of the benefits, tags can provide. They go on blogging, missing out on a feature that can easily help increase their blog’s ranking. I suggest if you’re seriously interested in blogging; do not miss out on the tag
Here are some tips to help you use WordPress tags effectively
Create more content for indexing
When you add a tag to your blog, it automatically creates new content. This content is then indexed by search engines. Thus in creating tags, you create more content on your blog. This will definitely help in increasing your blog’s ranking. However, do remember not to use too many tags as that will create too much of duplicate content, which could adversely affect your blog.
Avoid duplication
Do not showcase the entire article in the tags. Use only excerpts of the article in order to lessen the duplication of content. Keep the posts in their full form only on your post page. You can also try using custom excerpts to assist you with this.
Link the relevant posts
If you have written a number of posts on one topic, it would be nice to link them together by using tags. You can also have one common tag for a number of posts that are related. Linking a number of posts to one tag will help that tag get a higher page ranking. Such a tag is also more likely to get indexed by search engines.
Make use of long phrases for tags
Try and use long phrases for your tags. Do not make use of one or two words. This will not increase your blog’s popularity. Instead use phrases that users are likely to ask the search engines, when looking for some information. Using long, well worded tags can definitely be helpful in regards to SEO.
To conclude , tags are very useful to bloggers, but must be used well and in moderation. They can certainly help bring in a lot of traffic to your blog. We must acknowledge, however, that it does not work wonders overnight. To make your blog receive high ranking on search engines and to get a lot of viewership, one must employ a good strategy. Tags are only tools that can be easily used to carry out your well thought out plan.
This is a Guest post By Kaushal Gandhi
