Question about tags
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I would appreciate some advice about tags. Do you guys think that “the more, the better”?
because I am posting in English, but with recipes also translated to Portuguese, I decided to include tags in both languages. What I noticed, though, is that the “automated generated links” at the end of my post get pretty messed up. I mean, they fetch stuff absolutely unrelated to cooking, probably because it does not work well with Portuguese.
So, I have a dilemma – is it worth using the tags in Portuguese, or better forget about them? Is a search in google picking up words in the middle of your post, or only tags?
Thank you, as always for your input
and have a great weekend!
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Hi Sally~
I think it is a good way to go. Especially because some of your readers are Portuguese speakers!As for the “possibly related posts” it seems that they often bring up other related posts on my own blog. This makes sense because when I look at the global tag page for ‘agemono,’ I’m the only one using that category. For the equivalent category ‘deep-frying’ there are lots of other bloggers. By the way, I do get hits on the Japanese tags from internet searches.
I started out using categories for English and tags for Japanese. I broke down my recipes by cooking method (deep-frying, steaming, etc.) and by ingredient (defined broadly like vegetables, sweets, etc.).
But after a while I changed to using categories for both English and Japanese cooking methods because it seemed more organized: deep-frying=agemono, steaming=mushimono, etc. I kept the categories by ingredient, but I don’t know the Japanese names (I used Google Translate to get the Japanese words—so far none of my Japanese readers has said that they are just too funny, but I don’t know) I don’t actually assign them as categories. Which you could do on your blog.
I had to use a text widget and copy/paste to get my categories in the order I wanted. While I was at it, I added a tiny picture to illustrate. Because I’ve got all the categories I want, the list doesn’t change, so once it was done the categories update themselves when I add more recipes.
Then tags can be more specific things like salmon, or zucchini, or miso.
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Oh, I forgot:
Is a search in google picking up words in the middle of your post, or only tags?
One post of mine comes up from a search on “sweet potato vine” quite often. It’s not a tag on that post, just the phrase in the article. That one stood out in the spring. I think they were looking for info about growing sweet potatoes. I’m thinking there are other examples, but that one comes to mind first.
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