What?!?!? All I want are search engine tags
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I have no idea what templates, tags, or categories are, and I really don’t want to do.
I am capable of writing html from scratch and I wish I had just done that.
This is WAYYYY more complex than just adding keywords to your <head>.
I don’t have time for this.
why is it like this?? Why can’t I just add a bunch of keywords to some form?
I guess I give up on wordpress. -
I’ve read several articles that indicated that keywords are discounted by search engines now days since so many people have abused them.
Since we do not have access to the back end files we cannot add things to the template files. This is a multi-user version of wordpress and any change to a template would effect every user of that template. And besides, there are no HTML files in WordPress. It is all PHP script and all the blog pages are built “on the fly” by the PHP scripts.
If you wish to give up on wordpress, happy trails.
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From http://www.thesitewizard.com/sitepromotion/keyword-meta-tag.shtml
Why The Keywords Tag is Now History
To understand why I no longer use the keywords tag, a little history is in order. Note that the dates below are rough dates, based on my vague recollection of the events. I didn’t bother to record the actual dates when it happened and it was a very long time ago.1995-1997: The Rise and Abuse of the Keyword Tag
In the old days before Google, back when Alta Vista was considered one of the ruling search engines, the keywords tag was used by webmasters to tell search engines that the words listed in the tag can be regarded as being part of the content of the web page. It was indexed in addition to the words that appeared on the web page itself. It had its uses, such as to place common spelling mistakes of keywords on the page.As you may have guessed, there was widespread abuse of this tag, with some webmasters dumping words that had nothing to do with their web page in the hopes of attracting visitors to their site. Others saturated the tag with terms they considered important, in the hopes of improving the keyword density of their site.
Circa 1997: The Demise of the Keyword Tag
The end result of this was that, one by one, the search engines took steps to end the keyword abuse by not indexing anything in that tag. If my memory serves, the last to do so was Alta Vista. They even took it one step further: words occuring in the keyword tag that did not also occur on the web page itself would cause the page to be penalised.Google was born around this period. Learning its lessons from the search engines that came before, Google simply ignored the keywords tag. It continues such a policy to this day.
In other words, by the end of the 1990s, the keyword tag was no longer useful for any purpose.
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thank you guys so much for your time to reply.
Sorry I was really frustrated.
I understand that wordpress doesn’t use html.
So you’re saying .. tags are obsolete, so..
could you please tell me how search engines work then?
they look at the title and some major words in the article?
do the categories in wordpress matter?
all i want is to get a few eyeballs and get some discussion going for the blogs i will write in the future.
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Categories and tags that you assign to your posts are indexed by search engines and will improve your page rank. Always make sure the tags and categories are relevant to the post content. Also, since wordpress has the global tags pages, and all blogs (except for those marked as mature or those set to private, etc.) are included in the global tags pages, you get additional search engine “juice” from those.
One thing to remember though is that there is a thing known as tag spamming and wordpress has a limit of a combined total of 12 (tags + categories) to be included on the global tags pages. As long as you keep the number of tags + categories to a combined total of 12 or less, you will be included on the tags pages and get the benefits.
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Can we get a link to your WordPress.COM blog? It’s entirely possible that these answers don’t apply to you and you’re able to add metatags (not that they will do you any good). Without a link to your blog, starting with http, we cannot possibly guess.
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Thanks. These answers DO apply to your blog then. With reasonable use of global tags and categories you will easily outstrip any advantage that could possibly be conferred by the use of metatags. In fact, the WP.com global tag and category pages are such an advantage that virtually the first complaint people have after moving their blogs away is that they’re not on those pages anymore.
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