Wordpress Tags -- What Beginners Need To Know.

Wordpress tags can be a very simple but effective way of making your blog posts more search engine friendly.  You often reads about SEO, or search engine optimization, and by using the Wordpress tags built in tool with your blog posts, you can make your blog more search engine friendly.

Whenever you make a post to your blog there are three requirements to do so, a title, the text of the post, and which of your categories you want your post inserted into.  But there is one more item that you can utilize when making your posts and this is ‘Tags’.  And these ‘tags’ require very little effort on your part.

So what are tags really?  Very simply, they are one or two words, that very briefly describe what your post is about.  They are descriptors.  Please don’t try to load up your tags with juicy internet marketing buzz words.  They do need to correspond with what your post is about.

What do tags do?  Tags help the search engines index and categorize your posts.  Because remember, every post you make is treated as its own web page in the eyes of the search engines.  This is a very good thing. 

How do I benefit from using tags?  If you can make it easier for the search engines to find your posts, then when people use those search engines they will have an easier time finding your material.   

Where do I put these tags?  When making your post, on the right side of the screen, near where you select your category, there is a little box for tags.  You enter your tags here.  If you wish to use more than one tag, you can separate them with a comma.

So that’s it. Tags are simple, easy to understand, and easy to use. So much so that anyone can make use of them.