long or short tags?
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How do search engines organize and qualify tags from blog posts? Are tags more efficient if left at one or two words…or also beneficial as short phrases, just as they’re written in the post?
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The fewer words you use the better. 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 rescueExample 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 GearIt’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.
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“also beneficial as short phrases, just as they’re written in the post? “
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.
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