using tags on non-posts
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Hi!
to get traffic from search engines you need tags. To get tags, you need to have posts which you can consequently ‘tag’.
My question is, is it possible to tag something else than a normal post? My blog doesnt work with posts but with pages, and as far as I know – pages can’t be tagged.If that is not possible. Would it be possible to create posts and tag those, but make those posts invisible?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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No, it isn’t possible. And workarounds of the sort you’re discussing are considered SEO gaming and can subject your WP.com site to suspension. It’s best just to blog, if what you want is to have a popular blog.
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Ok, thanks for your quick response! I’ll try to incorporate posts in my blog in some way.
I hope that it’s allowed to work with pages and not with posts? -
I’m not sure what your second sentence means. Pages are quite different from posts and will not likely ever get tags and categories; they’re not required, for the functions for which Pages were designed.
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No you cannot have it both ways. You either have an actual blog that gets Goggle juice because you have posts to display in the SERPs, and you earn a PageRank or, you have a non-blog full of static pages masquerading as a website. Websites have static pages, no posts, no Google juice, no PageRanks.
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What I meant was;
Wordpress is mainly a place to blog. I’m using WordPress for something else than blogging. I hope that that is allowed.Basically what I’ve done is set up a large number of pages. The pages are linked to each other and in that way they form an interactive story.
For example:
Page 1 would say: ‘there is a door and a window – what do you do?’
Go to window (links you to page 2)
Go to door (links you to page 3)
Then imagine this with 100 pages and you get a story.So I’m wondering if that’s allowed?
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Using WordPress for something other than blogging is allowed, but it’s not designed for that and you’ll have to take tradeoffs. I see what you’re doing, but you could do that with Posts as well and get more SEO. You’d just set a static intro page as your entry page and use a theme that had no sidebars, only a link to the first page of the story.
Some themes even have a bug where there are no links to Next and Previous posts, which would work perfectly for you. It would still give you the Googlejuice posts have.
If use use the iNove theme, you can even choose to make categories invisible.
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WordPress is mainly a place to blog. I’m using WordPress for something else than blogging. I hope that that is allowed.
You are allowed to do what you are doing. And, what I have stated is the consequences of the choice you have made.
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raincoaster and I are on the same page because we are old hands at this. Read the alternative you could use > http://en.support.wordpress.com/write-a-book/
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Sorry to bother you guys again. I think I’ve found a workaround and I just wanted to check if it’s ‘allowed’.
If you visit my blog: http://starcraftadventures.wordpress.com/
You’ll see that at all times only the two most recent posts will be shown. I want the post that is currently on the right side to be shown permanently. Of course thats not possible because when i post something new itll dissapear into the archives.
So my question is:Is it allowed to post <exactly> the same post, with the same tags and everything over and over again?
ie. I would post post ‘A’ then post ‘B’, then post ‘A’ again, then ‘C’, then ‘A’ etc…
This way I’ll always have the same post of the front page. Is this allowed or is this considered spamming? -
You can make it STICKY instead. Making the same post over and over is not a good idea for many, many technical reasons I won’t go into.
When you’re on the Edit page, look on the right-hand side and you’ll see an option to Stick This to the Front Page (I think it’s under Visibility). Use that. This is exactly what it’s designed for.
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