Tags and Meta Words

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  weighedandwanting · Member · Feb 24, 2011 at 6:05 pm

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  I can’t seem to get the tags module to show up in my post page. I would like to be able to check the tags I want for each post but I have to put them in manually. Why doesn’t my tags modue show up?

  Also, I read a lot about adding the right meta words to my blog in order to be found by search engines. Does WordPress provide a way to create meta words? Is this the same thing as tags?

  Thanks,

  Gary

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  timethief · Member · Feb 24, 2011 at 6:46 pm

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  Why doesn’t my tags module show up?

  We can assign Tags and Categories ONLY to posts. We cannot assign tags and Categories to Pages. The two are very different. Static Pages sit outside the blog structure and the other differences are explained here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  Tagging posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/

  adding the right meta words to my blog

  The information you have received about key words in meat data is outdated. For over a year now Google has made it abundantly clear that they pay no heed to key words in meta data because too many people attempted to use them to game the algorithm.

  In any event wordpress.com is a multiuser blogging platform ie. a shared environment wherein all blogs wearing the same theme are, in essence,using the same underlying template. The only editing to templates and themes is done by Staff as any edit they make affects all blogs wearing the same theme. We bloggers cannot access let alone edit that meta data. We can set up webmaster’s accounts and we can verify our blog ownership with all the big search engines. Please see here for instructions to do that. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/

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  weighedandwanting · Member · Feb 25, 2011 at 1:11 am

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  Thanks for the response. THe link you provided on “Assigning Tags with the Post Tags Module”, is the very thing I am trying to figure out. It says:
  You can assign and/or add new tags to posts before you publish them using the Post Tags module to the bottom right of the post editor:

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  weighedandwanting · Member · Feb 25, 2011 at 1:13 am

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  The problem is that I can’t get this “Post Tags module” to show up on the bottom right of the post editor. Any idea why?

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  airodyssey · Member · Feb 25, 2011 at 1:22 am

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  While editing the post, check your “Screen Options” on the top right corner and make sure “Post Tags” is checked.

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  weighedandwanting · Member · Feb 25, 2011 at 1:49 am

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  Thanks and, yes, I have gone through that very process a number of times. Still, the module won’t show up. Does it only work with certain themes?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 25, 2011 at 2:23 am

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  @weighedandwanting
  No. Tagging is not theme dependant. If it’s a post and not a page it can be tagged by Admin and by Editors.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 25, 2011 at 6:15 am

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  5 are you entirely sure you’re using Posts instead of Pages?