It is difficult to choose the right tags for any post. But tags are important for both users and SEOs. As your site grows, it is necessary to build and maintain a logical site structure properly, so that both the user and the search engine have the ease of finding the right content on your website. Tags and categories help in creating the blog structure, so that people can easily find the posts of their interest. So today we will show you how you can choose them.
When you use tags incorrectly on your site, you also make it difficult for people to navigate your site. This is not only bad for users, but using tags incorrectly is also harmful to the SEO of your site.
That is why you should know how to add post tags so that you can make your site more user-friendly and SEO friendly by using tagging.
In the past, we have seen many sites whose pages tag was misused, and they had to face Google Panda Update.
Before using tags in your website or blog article, you should know these 2 important things.
You should not add too many tags to a post.
You should not use tags that are not related to the current post of any other post on your site.
But what should you do? Let us know how to use tags, so that both users and SEO benefit from them.
How to use post tag for users and SEO?
When you add a tag to a post, that post is added to that tag's archive. When we add a "Keyword Research" tag to this post, it gets added to that archive. Just like in categories, the only difference is that you can only include 1-2 categories in a post whereas tags can include 10-20.
This is, of course, very useful. When people click on the keyword research tag, they will get a complete overview of all the posts on that topic. Also, Google will understand that all the posts in this collection belong together.
But if you use tags in the wrong way, it neither helps in finding your audience's favorite post nor will it help Google to understand about your site.
How to choose Post Tags? What are the things to be taken care of while choosing a post tag?
Here I am telling you 7 important tips for how to use tags, hope that after reading and understanding these, you will be able to easily add quality tagging to your post.
- How to choose your tags?
When you are planning your blog post, it is possible that you will have some more themes. Those topics are probably your best tags.
For example, at SMI, we often write about SEO, blogging, blogspot, wordpress, ranking, google update, internet and many more topics. These are some examples of tags we commonly use for posts.
When choosing a tag you should ask yourself:
What other posts does this post belong to?
Which tag is best for this group?
Is this tag the best keyword option for this topic?
You should not create a tag; They should be existing words or phrases. Words or phrases people search for. Therefore, we would recommend to do keyword research first. For keyword research, you can use SEO tools like Ahrefs, Semrush.
- Use only required and appropriate tags
It is often seen that bloggers use excessive and unrelated tags in their posts, which actually kills their website instead of benefiting them.
You must know the following things before using tags.
You should not add too many tags to a post.
You should not use tags that do not pertain to your current post.
Only use 10-20 tags in a post, even when it is necessary, do not use unnecessary tags at all, otherwise they will harm you instead of benefits.
- Optimize your tag page?
You can optimize your tag pages to try to rank your posts well. In this Yoast SEO plugin and other SEO plugins will help you.
How to customize tags and category pages more. What you must remember is that when you are doing your keyword research, it is up to you to decide what is going to be tagged.
- Choose your tags carefully
When you write your blog post, think well about your tag. Do not make it in 1-2 seconds. They are important for visitors and Google, they have to choose you well.
That is why I am thinking about thinking about your tag, so that you can add better tags. The good thing is that it also helps you quickly find other posts to link to.
- Do not tag keywords for SEO only
Most people do the same, and sometimes their articles get ranked in Google, they tag the main keywords in their posts, which is not correct.
Yes, you must add the necessary tags but just think how it will be if we include lifestyle keywords by tagging them in the blogging post.
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