How to publicise my blog?

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  voonwei · Member · Nov 22, 2009 at 4:08 am

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  How do I publicize my blog? How do I include keywords into my blog? Also, how do tags function like? Thanks for the assistance and I appreciate them very much!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 22, 2009 at 4:32 am

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  What do you mean by publicize? Build readership?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 22, 2009 at 5:44 am

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  Kewords
  Keywords and keyword phrases are index terms, terms used as a keyword to retrieve documents in an information system such as a catalog or a search engine.

  Also as many people confuse categories and tags so I’d like to use an analogy. Categories are like the Table of Contents you see when you open a book. Tags are like the terms you find in the Index of a book.

  Example 1 (news story but pretend it’s a blog post)
  Trapped dolphins may be running out of time
  Categories: Marine Biology, Marine Mammals, Canada
  Tags: Dolphins, Newfoundland, Animal rescue

  Example 2 (news story but pretend it’s a blog post)
  Whale entanglements rising
  Categories: Marine Biology, Marine mammals, United States
  Tags: North Atlantic right whales, Animal rescue, Fishing Gear

  It’s important not to use any more than 12 relevant categories and tags (combined total) if you want your posts to be displayed on the wordpress.com tag pages.

  It’s important not to get into keyword stuffing or keyword phrase stuffing. Keywords and keyword phrases naturally occur in any speech or writing and in every language. Proper keyword use in blogging or any online writing means the terms are found in the natural flow of language and are not superimposed or “stuffed” into text.

  Google is looking for “natural linking patterns”. If you don’t know what that phrase means then click my username and type the phrase into the searchbox. If you need help with determining how to promote your posts you can type Blog promotion Basics into the searchbox and get instructions on how to promote your blog:

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 22, 2009 at 6:06 am

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  Do try a forum search. These questions have been answered multiple times per day for the three years I’ve been here. There are over a thousand tips already in the forum.

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  babaliciou5 · Member · Nov 22, 2009 at 12:49 pm

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  @TT
  It’s now 5-10 tags (or categories, or the combo) is a good number to add to each of your posts, says the support page.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/global-tags/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 22, 2009 at 6:27 pm

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  @babalicious5
  Thanks for the correction – bookmarked! :)