Indexing
Everyone wants to get their blog indexed and indexed well by Google. The following tip has worked for me thus far. I can’t say how effective it is in actually bringing my blog traffic but one can’t get traffic if their blog is not indexed.
The Indexing Tip
Use tags but not just any tags. WordPress offers you the option to use tags. These are good if used correctly but something I have found to work better is to not use tags that lead to the WordPress Tag Dashboard but to my own site.
Tags To Your Site
How do you use tags that lead to your site? You need an html code. This is what it looks like:
<a rel=”tag” href=”http://your-site.wordpress.com/index.php?s=a+tag”>A Tag</a>
If you have more than one word within your tag make sure you connect them with +
While making a post on WordPress look at the top right corner and you will see Visual and HTML. In order for your tag to work make sure you post it in HTML.
Tips While Tagging
- Use tags that help describe your post. If you wrote a post about hamburgers then you could use the tags: cheese, lettuce, buns, grill. Also it is a good idea to be descriptive when using tags.
- Don’t go over board with tags. 10 tags is pretty good. 50 tags is pushing it and may get you penalized by Google and other search engines.
I don’t understand the Tags To Your Site part. Where is it that this code is affecting? And do I need to list every tag I’m going to use?
I am not sure I understand your question but let’s see if we can work through this.
When writing a post I click the HTML and insert the tag code. I use mine at the bottom of the post. For example I used Google Indexing Tips, Getting Indexed By Google, How To Get Indexed, Google Indexed My Blog, Penalized By Google for this post.
You would list every tag you want to use for a post. From my experience Google indexes my tags which is good because that means I can be found in Google not only for my post title but also for my tags.
WordPress offers tags but they lead to their dashboard which leads people away from my blog. One of our goals for blogging is to keep people at our blog and not send them away.
Maybe that was too much info or the wrong stuff. Let me know and I will try to help.
Seems like a pretty good idea, I’ll give this a go. Btw, when doing this, do we need to keep the regular WordPress tags section empty for this to work?
No, actually you could use wordpress tags and in your sitemap use those same tags but with the correct address that leads back to your site.
When one uses the html code I gave up in the post whatever word they use will lead back to their site.
So you could use wordpress tags but then on the site map just enter the wordpress tag you used in the html code. Though I probably said differently in the post I think I would recommend using both.
Why?
1. WordPress tags makes you easily found by people on the WordPress dashboard.
2. Once people are at your site they can then go to the sitemap and search for other other tags that may interests them.
3. Google spiders crawl your site and will crawl your sitemap. Once they do this they will indexed whatever html code tag you have on your sitemap. A few tags at first and more as time goes on.
If all that mumbo jumbo didn’t make sense I hope at least the last 3 points at the end did. If not let me know.
I have since gotten rid of these tags because it may be over kill.