Tags – Help, they are showing up on my public blog.
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Help. I set tags to all my posts and then viewed the blog and didn’t see them which was good. A few days have passed and I just checked my blog and noticed all the tags are showing at the top of each post! This looks aweful, how can I keep the tags from showing?
Thank you very much.
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You are using the Vigilance theme. You are assigning tags to the posts. They are displaying above the posts as expected.This is normal blog behavior. If you do not wish the search engines to have the tags so they can send traffic to your blog the solution is not to assign them to your posts. BTW categories and tags are viewed and treated the same way by search engines.
Has you blog been CSS edited?
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Thank you Timethief. Yes, my blog has been CSS edited, but very little.
Do other themes allow you to set tags on your posts without them showing up on the live view? Is that something I could have changed through CSS?
If I were to tag categories instead of posts would they still show in the live feed?
Sorry if my questions are redundant, I am still trying to absorb all this new blog language.
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Do you care whether or not the search engine locate your content and index it? If you do then you will be aware that when people type keywords you have used in your tags and categories and posts the value of having your posts indexed is that they do appear in the search engine results. it’s not uncommon fro r”real” blogs that don’t have static front pages and are not structured around static Pages but aroung posts to receive up to 40% of all their traffic from search engines.
You may think my response is an odd one but it isn’t these days we have many wannabe bloggers, who actually structure mock websites based on a astsic page structure rather than a a dynamic post structure, and then complain about the normal functioning of blogs, and not getting search engine attention, backlinks, or PageRanks.
So tell me straight out whether or not you care about search engine indexing, and other bloggers backlinking to your posts in posts of their own, and whether or not your blog actually achieves a PageRank, and I will answer within the context of the answer that you provide.
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“Do other themes allow you to set tags on your posts without them showing up on the live view?”
iNove and Monochrome do.
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Questions:
Do other themes allow you to set tags on your posts without them showing up on the live view?
I’m not aware of any themes that are designed to do that.
If I were to tag categories instead of posts would they still show in the live feed?
Go here > Settings > Reading
http://elizabethetienne.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php
You can choose what to display in RSS feeds.ForCSS advice > http://csswiz.wordpress.com/
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Categories and tags are how readers will find your blog, and also how they will locate content in your blog. (The categories and tags widgets display links to only the posts in your own blog.)
Categories are like Chapter headings found in the Table of Contents of any book. Tags are equivalent to the terms we find in the index in the back of any book. Keywords and keyword phrases (categories and tags) are all index terms, terms used as a keyword to retrieve documents in an information system such as a catalog or a search engine. Most importantly keywords and keyword phrases (categories and tags) all naturally occur in any speech or writing and in every language.
In your wordpress.com blog you are at liberty to both categories and tags them in ways that are aimed at helping potential readers, who are using search engines to look for contents like you have in your blog posts to find those posts.
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Thank you Timethief for your responses.
So, to summarize what you have said, the Front Page is the only page that gathers any traffic info and therefore since my Front Page is static, there really is no need for me to tag any of the posts?
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Basically, if I want traffic generated by a search engine, I must add tags to posts period, which will show at the top of the posts.
If I use the word “Kodak” in a Category or in the body of the Post, then it is NOT Necessary for me to have to repeat a Tag for the word Kodak. The engine will pick it up “Kodak” from the category and/or the post? Is this correct?
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the Front Page is the only page that gathers any traffic info
It’s not the only page. Other post on my blog are very poular and they also gave Google juice. But in a concvetional blog that’s set up to operate as blogs are expected to operate the Front Page is the primary page where Google juice is flowing because that’s where the newest posts are and where the discussion (commenting) is taking place.
A static front page will never have as much Google juice as a Front Page in a conventional blog does, and neither will a conventional Front Page that’s plastered with sticky posts.
Categories and tags are viewed and treated in exactly the same manner by search engines. If your are publishing a post with “Kodak” in the title of the posts and recurring in the text as well then the search engines will use those as index terms.
The bottom line here is if you want to have a mock website that’s fine. You can do that. I simply wanted to be sure that you understood that if you do care about Google juice, backlinks and PageRank, then the best format is the conventional blog format. The worst is to create a page based blog structure with a static front page, or a conventional post based structure that has sticky posts plastered on the front page.
Setting search engines aside, it’s important to know that by having either a static front page or a conventional post based structure that has sticky posts plastered on the front page has a negative affect on readers. No regular reader wants to have to click through the page with the same old blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit your site. They are coming to read and discuss what’s new.
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