Only 9 tags!?
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Whywe should be use less than 10 categories and tags? Only 10?
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It is because in the past people have abused the category/tag system using in some cases up to 100 of the same tags on each post whether or not they were appropriate for the post. The search engines also frown on too many tags. It is called tag spamming, and it will slaughter your page rank if you use too many. This is the main reason that virtually all search engines pay very little attention to meta keywords anymore – abuse. Not long ago, I saw a series of posts on a blog that had more tags on each post than it did words in the posts (yes, I counted them).
The thing is, you can use a hundred tags on each of your post if you want. WordPress will not care, but they will block you from the wordpress global tags pages and the search engines will discount your page rank.
Consider your tag/category assignments carefully, make sure they are appropriate to the post, write high quality original content and you will do fine. There are people here with very high page rank in the search engines and they keep within the 10 tags/categories limits. It isn’t about quantity, it is about quality.
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“The thing is, you can use a hundred tags on each of your post if you want. WordPress will not care”
Yes, this could be beautiful if tag link not point to global tag but to internal tag. So we can not use “a hundred tags” because “a hundred tags” should be completely useless for internal blogging purpose. This global tag should be optionable and not an obliged feature.
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The tags under or over your post will lead to the global tags pages. It has been that way for the 2+ years I’ve been here and staff have said that that will not change and it adds a huge amount of search engine juice for blogs hosted here.
Tags/categories listed in the tags/categories widget will lead to your local post in those tags/categories.
You can also go to one of the first two settings at settings > privacy (private blog or disallow search engines) and then the tags/categories on you posts will go local. Or, you can report your own blog as “mature” and that will take the tags local as well. To do that, while on your blog go to “blog info” on the grey admin bar and go down to “mature.”
This has been discussed literally hundreds of times in the time I’ve been here.
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Let me understand, please: if I report my blog as “mature” (even if it’s not for “mature”, it’s a news blog) my tag link under post will be local and my blog will be off from global tags? Are you sure? This sounds great.
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Yes, that is correct. The mature setting will get you off the global tags pages. The only other thing is that I think it will also remove the link to your blog from your username.
You might want to run that by staff just to make sure I’m remembering things correctly: http://support.wordpress.com/contact/ .
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I opened this blog for trying and marked it as mature. I received email confirm. Now tag link under post point again to global tags.
http://kshfaccimm.wordpress.com/
As I said global tags is an obliged feature, you can’t point your blog tags under post to internal tags list.
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This is the reply from staff:
“The tag links within your posting area will still point to global tags (only the Categories Widget and Tag Cloud Widget will point to local archives). But yes, your blog will no longer appear in the global tags.”
So, thesacredpath, you are in error.
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There’s no such thing as an internal tag list, you use categories to let people browse your blog posts.
Marking your blog as mature will only get it removed from the global tag sytem and you won’t be able to link your username to it, nothing more.
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Finally we are obliged to use only 9 tags and this is an awful feature for wordpress.com.
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@lorawow
I can’t use categories because I can’t select in hundreds of categories to apply a single category for every post, I need the tag system as other blog platforms (Blogger and others): you write tag and apply. I repeat: on wordpress.com you are *obliged* to use no more of 9 tags and this is awful. -
It is not awful: it is incorrect.
You need to calm down and read what people have posted; these people know a great deal more about WordPress.com than you do.
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You can use as many tags and categories as you like if you don’t mind being excluded from the global tags pages. And if, as you say, you “need the tag system as other blog platforms (Blogger and others)” you can always export your wordpress.com blog to another platform.
You haven’t signed a contract and nobody is forcing you to stay here.
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@raincoaster
Yea, but the final is: on wordpress.com you are *obliged* to use no more of 9 tags. I’m saying this from first post.@ellaella
ROTFL, how can I don’t mind being exluded from the global tags pages? My tag will be completely useless! By the way I’m trying to export to Blogger but my xml file is too big, I must to wait for a decent export tool from wordpress.com to Blogger or try to split. -
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You should never use too much tags, not here not on blogger nor anywhere else. This will ruin your google pagerank which means you will not receive any visitors by search terms.
– Lora
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20 or 30 tags will not ruin your google pagerank, believe me, Google not cares of tags. But a limit of 9 tags will ruin my brain. I’m very sad for this beacuse wordpress platform is the best today for blogging. But 9 tags are really too few.
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Nobody is stopping you from using more tags. You only won’t appear as fast as someone with only 9 tags in the global tag system.
– Lora
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20 or 30 tags, however, WILL probably get you downgraded on Technorati, as they are taking action against tag spamming, and that has an echo effect on Google.
Use as many tags as you like. Nobody here gives a rat’s ass how many you use. We dont know you, we don’t work for WordPress.com, and so we just don’t care.
But if you use more than a certain number, you’ll be excluded from the Global pages. That does matter, indeed, and it matters because linkage FROM those pages to your blog is responsible for a great deal of your Google pagerank.
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