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  louisdanker · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 10:58 am

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  I have been looking at other blogs and they seem full of tags, whilst my site has very few. I am not sure whether I should start to add in more tags, and if so, should I add them to old posts as well? Or should I keep going as I am currently with limited amounts of tags. Thanks!

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 11:25 am

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  Don’t bother tagging old posts. Never use more than about a dozen. You should be safe up to fifteen. But when you see blogs using huge swathes of tags, that’s because they’ve been listening to bad advice. Using too many tags will convince Google to throw you down a well for tag spamming, and you’ll be excluded from the Reader and Tag pages here. You dont’ want that.

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  louisdanker · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 11:28 am

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  Thanks for the advice! The problem is, at the moment I am struggling to put three or four tags on a post!

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 11:32 am

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  No worries. This should help. You really don’t need a ton of tags. http://raincoastermedia.com/2011/06/08/keywording-like-a-boss/

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  louisdanker · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 11:47 am

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  Thanks again for all your help raincoaster. And by the way, you are down to number 2!

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 12:26 pm

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  Not on mine. And not bad for a post that old.

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  sensuouscurmudgeon · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 12:43 pm

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  This may be just one blogger’s oddball opinion, but I think tags are way over-rated. I don’t use them at all. Google seems to do its job these days by looking mostly at blog titles and contents.