A little lost
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I a fairly new to WordPress and a little lost on a few things.
Once I add a tag to my post can I remove it?
I understand tags but what are categories and how do I use them to promote my blog?
Do you have to have a premium account to add meta tags?
What is SEO and how do I use it to help promote my blog.
What exactly is RSS? should I add the widget to my blog?
Is their any place on the WordPress site itself to list or promote my blog?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Welcome to WordPress! Let me see if I can help answer some of your questions:
Once I add a tag to my post can I remove it?
Yes, you must got back to the Post editor and you will be able to delete the tag that you have put on the post.
what are categories and how do I use them to promote my blog?
Categories are a larger blanket way to organize. Let’s say you have a food blog: your categories could be “Breakfast” “Lunch” and “Dinner”. And the tags are things that you can use to describe your post in more detail.
For more information about the differences between categories and tags, please check out this support document:Do you have to have a premium account to add meta tags?
This is where it gets a little bit more or less complicated. WordPress.com does not permit the addition of meta tags, the reasoning for this is that WordPress.com has great SEO right out of the box. It is already optimized to help your blog get the best ranking it can with search engines.
The best way to optimize your blog is to publish new posts and update your blog on a regular basis.
For more information here is another support document explaining the SEO on WordPress.com.What exactly is RSS? should I add the widget to my blog?
RSS is Rich Site Summary- which is a way for people to receive all the information/updates from the sites that most visit all in one place. It also eliminates the need for a reader to disclose their information to sign up for a news letter. What the widget does is that it collects the most recent updates from either blogs that you are interested in, or another one of your blogs- whatever you would want to display for your readers.
It is up to you if you would like add this feed to your blog.
Is their any place on the WordPress site itself to list or promote my blog?
The best way to get your blog noticed is to end up on the WordPress.com recommended blogs list. To end up on this site is mindfully chose your categories and tags, and to continue having creative content.
If you want more input a great resource would be the community pool. Here you can get feedback on your blog (whether it is the design or the content) to help you increase traffic to your blog.
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/category/community-pool/
Hope that is helpful to you!
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