Tagging and Simple Tags Information
Yesterday’s post caused a few questions about tagging and Simple Tags.
The first had to do with setting the no follow. One of the items in the general settings is to make tag links use the no follow attribute. It is easy to do you just check the box and click update under the general setting
The other setting I like to change from the default is in the related posts section. I set it to show 5 related posts under each post on both the blog and feed. Because most visitors arrive at your site on a specific post this gives them related topics you have covered on other posts. It also adds related interior linking of your posts.
The other question was about the tag clouds. Having a tag cloud displayed allows the spiders to find and index your various tag pages which I have found gets the blog indexed deeper and often creates a double listing for certain keywords in Google. Both the appropriate post and the tag page get listed.
Any extra listings I can get in my buddy Google are a good thing as I see it and why I always use a tag cloud. Can’t prove it but do know that before I started using the tag cloud I was not seeing the double listings and within a week of adding the tag cloud it became very common.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Mike Paetzold
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7 comments
Ron Barrett on April 14, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Mike,
Thanks for the great tips. I especially am going to look at the related posts one. I don’t think I have that set up on my blog.
Keep up the good work.
Ron
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Andre Arnett
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on April 14, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Thanks for the information. That is still one of the things I need to learn. good to know I have someone who can teach it the right way.
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Doug Champigny on April 14, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Great info, Mike – but one favor?
There are two or more different plugins calling themselves Simple Tags – can you provide a link to the one you’re discussing?
Also, does this just do internal tags, or does it tag for Technorati too?
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Mike on April 14, 2009 at 3:45 pm
@Doug Champigny – I made it clickable it is called Simple Tags and I use another for Technorati tags called WP to Technorati.
Fred Lotgering on April 14, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Great explanation Mike.
Makes things a lot clearer for me. Going to try it, like the related post listing as well
Thanks Mike
Fred
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Brett McEllhiney on April 14, 2009 at 11:58 pm
OK, so now I’m confused?
I thought we wanted the no-follow turned off. I thought that we wanted to spiders to be able to follow the links and it was my understanding that if the no-follow was checked then the spiders would not be able to follow the link.
Sorry if I am miss-understanding
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Earl Netwal on April 15, 2009 at 9:38 am
Mike you condensed three posts in this one posting. Thanks for all the info. I need to go back and change my Simple tags. I don’t suppose anyone has come up with a centralized way to change all your tags on multiple blogs.
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