How to Use Tags for WordPress SEO

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Pazalaza

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I publish 3 articles of 2100 words each week on my wordpress blog. I use seo yoast for "SEO Title" "Meta Description" and "Metakeywords", but I never use "Tags"

Is it important? Will tags benefit my SEO? Is there a plugin? How many tags per article?

 

innozemec

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tags were pretty powerful before few years, but i really don't know how much important are they today.. i use them all the time, so i can't really judge how's without them..

maybe someone that did some tests recently could share some advice in here

 

Conor

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A tag is just an internal link at the end of the day. No harm in using them, it will help distribute the PR nicely through your blog I guess.

 

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dbshoupe

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Tags can help by giving you another way to use a keyword variation that may not fit easily within the content of the page/post. But I don't consider them a huge help and don't use them on most of my sites. But if I had to choose between tags and meta keywords I'd go with tagging. Metakeywords doesn't add anything to your ranking efforts. In fact, all it does is send up a flag to your competitors telling them what keywords you are targeting.

 

masterjani

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tags are really helpful. You can use some relevant long tail tags to get benefits of traffic. sometimes tags will outrank your main page. At that time, you need to 301 the tag page to your main article page to get same ranking.

 

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I only use tags for traffic purposes, I no-index them on my blogs.

 

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thomsanmatt

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good question about the tags. never really thought about it just always us them

 

madinina

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If you use them and index them, be careful not to have tag pages that are too similar, would be duplicate content

 

SEO_Alchemy

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Tags help with your site structure and onPage SEO. they are super easy to implement in Wordpress, and you should absolutely be using them. Not just random tags, but come up with a list of 50 or so that relate to your site, that you are looking to rank, and use these tags on the appropriate posts. Your rankings will thank you.

 

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Pazalaza

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How many tags should I use per post?

 

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wp_wizard

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a tag is not a bad practice still because lots of sliders plugin want tags to show featured posts of your website.

 

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Pazalaza said:

How many tags should I use per post?

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I normally go for at least 4

 

ActionTaker

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You no-index tags, right?

SEO_Alchemy said:

Tags help with your site structure and onPage SEO. they are super easy to implement in Wordpress, and you should absolutely be using them. Not just random tags, but come up with a list of 50 or so that relate to your site, that you are looking to rank, and use these tags on the appropriate posts. Your rankings will thank you.

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ShikharG

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I've been using tags just for the ease of navigation and if the visitors want to search for a particular thing,it helps that too I guess.