How to attact people to your blog #1: tags

The simplest way to attract people to your blog is to use the WordPress tagging system.  When you click on Add New Post you will see a box on the right-hand side of your page called Post Tags. The idea is to take the most relevant keywords in your post and tag them on to each post.

This helps draw people to your blog in two ways:

1). Many people click on the specific pages for WordPress tags. Here for example is the page for news; here is the page for London and here is the page for Islington. You can choose any keyword or short sentence to be a tag. I have, for example, tagged this post with “how to use wordpress tags” on my WordPress theme it appears just below the title (see above).

2). Search engines: Sites like Google also take a lot of notice of tags. Although a search engine will read the entire content of your post, it gives special relevance to two things: the content of your title or headline and the tags you use to describe it. It also reads how many links a page has. Each tag counts as one link, so if you give your post, say, five tags, that already counts as five links. Or put another way, the more tags you have, the easier it is for others to find your content on the internet.

You can now add tags to your new post or go back and add them to your old posts.

* For a more detailed explanation of tagging: see here

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