What is the impact of the removal of Categories list on blog posts?
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If I uncheck the ‘include category list’ and ‘include tags list’ from my blog posts (because I don’t wan the information to be visible to my clients), does it remove all the categories and tags, thus negatively impacted my seo?
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The categories and tags you assign to posts are not required for SEO Purposes at all. They assist on site visitors to locate all posts assigned the same category and/or tag.
When you assign categories and/or tags that makes your posts discoverable within the WordPress.COM blogging environment.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/01/20/finding-blogs-with-similar-content/This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture. We WordPress.COM bloggers cannot access metadata. But its of interest to note meta titles, meta descriptions and keyword metatags are not required for SEO purposes and Matt Cutts of Google has said that as far back as 2009. Search engines are focused on keywords in your content. Their search spiders can detect whether or not the content actually supports the tags and/or categories assigned to a post and report you for tags spamming if it does not.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/12/05/keyword-power-in-the-blogging-world/To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/ Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines
The good news is that WordPress.com SEO is very good. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.`
Read http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/You have the options of:
1. Not assigning any categories and tags to posts. There will be no impact on SEO.
2. Assigning them but purchasing a custom design upgrade so you can use CSS editing to suppress the display on the blog. Once again there will be no impact on SEO.See here for details on purchasing the annually renewable custom and CSS editing:
Custom design – Frequently Asked Questions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/If you do purchase the upgrade then please use this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform so you can copy and paste your text into a thread that will appear in the CSS Forum where you will get the help you need.
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You’re welcome. I will add that if you already have categories and tags assigned to posts and you delete them the result will be a 404 page not found error message when the deleted links are clicked in the SERPS (search engine page results) until the site re-indexing process takes place.
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