Tagging for Search Engine Optimization

Riley — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:06:05 +0000

For those n00bs out there, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, something that many bloggers and companies do to make sure that their site is on the top of a google (or similar) search of a certain topic. To do this, some people hire SEO Professionals to make sure that their site is out there and gets the most hits in a category. Most low-level bloggers just do this by putting an obscene amount of tags on a given post in the hopes that if there are enough, then some random guy will happen to fall upon your site by a very far-fetched tag. Let me give an example of a “far-fetched” tag. Someone is writing a post on how to garden effectively. In a ten page article, they mention some random person, let’s say “James Smith” who, let’s say, is a famous gardening guru for HGTV. The author would then go in a tagging frenzy of anything to do with how-to television and get way off topic. This I feel is wrong.

I feel this is wrong but I also still feel the need to tag. I feel that it is bad if I don’t and that I may be leaving something behind–not doing something I should be doing. (Why don’t I try to say “feel” one more time? Feel. Now back to the post.) So I try to be a reasonable tagger and if you are a blogger, I think you should too. Plus, are tags really going to help out SEOptimize your blog unless you get 1,000+ uniques/month?

Just a thought.

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Tagging for Search Engine Optimization