SEO Tip : Build traffic by using your tags

April 12th, 2008 | Posted in SEO Tip of Day, blogging

A great way to help boost your sites SEO is through the use of tags on your blogs. Tags are often viewed as just another form of using categories, but they can definitely add value to your site.

I found a great article on dailyseo.org that discusses all the benefits from using tags on your blogs.

Here are a couple of the benefits that your blog will get from using tags on your posts that I picked up from dailyseo website:

  1. Increase number of pages. This is because everytime you put a tag on a post, your blog will automatically create a page for that tag. For example you can see my tag page for blogging. This way you can limit the number of categories that you apply a post you, and just add your keywords into your tags and create the same effect
  2. Improve your users experience on your page. Users like to see tag, so feed them what they want

But when you start to use tags… make sure that you are getting the most from your usage. Remember, by using your tags, you are able to keep your category list small. Tags should be used to compliment your category list, not serve as a duplicate (although sometimes I do duplicate mine).

For example… on this post you are reading now:

here are the categories = blogging and SEO Tip of the day
here are my tagsblogging,tags,seo,tips,traffic,webmasters,blogs,marketing,wordpress

Blogging gets duplicated, but the others are merely compliments to the categories.

Use them wisely, and they will dramatically improve your web presence. You can find more ways to successfully use tags on the problogger.net blog.

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2 Comments

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    Brad from Daily SEO // April 12th, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    Hey Michael,

    I wanted to stop by and thank you for mentioning Daily SEO on your blog! I appreciate it a lot!

    You’ve got a really nice blog here… maybe you’d want to guest post on Daily SEO? It doesn’t have to be too long or anything… email me if you are interested!

    thanks, Brad

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    Kashif // April 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    I always thought the same . Tags are one of the ways for search engines to send you traffic . I love them when they keep coming . Nice post :)

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