Blog Tip: Tag Blog Articles Right
by: Ronovan
Tags for Blogs isn’t easy. Or is it? You have a great article but no one comes to pay you a visit. Why not? You didn’t send out the invitations. I am going to make this pretty simple. Using a restaurant as an example to give you Blog Tagging Tips so that your Blog Articles will be friendlier to SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Think Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
Welcome to Restaurant RonovanWrites.
Please look at my Menu on the right which I call Categories
Please select a Dish from the Entree List of Poetry, Writing, or any other Entree you would like.
The ingredients can be found at the bottom of each Poetry,Writing, or whatever dish you like as the Tags.
Restaurant RonovanWrites isn’t a big deal to people. It means nothing. I need to have what people want. That means a nice menu they are looking for. An example would be Poetry. Okay so I have the dish but what are the ingredients in the dish? Some people want veggie tacos, some beef, pork, or chicken.
How will people know what you have unless you tell them?
So your dish is Poetry and now you need to tell the customer what is in the Poetry you are serving. You created the dish. You know what is in it, the feelings and descriptions. Those are your Tags.
If I have a poem about my Migraines that are very bad, my Tags might be; Migraines, Pain, Headaches, Suffering, Anger, Darkness, Personal, Depression. I normally also put in Poetry, Writing, and Creative Writing, and I if I am using a personal Photo I add Photography. Blogs is also a good Tag to use.
There are those who use just a few Tags, but in truth as long as you don’t go over say 10 or so, I think you’ll be fine.
Now when a Search Engine reaches out it will see your Tags and the Category. Your Title is also important. Make sure to only capitalize the important words, the proper words. And also use key words in the first paragraph or so of your article. If you notice during some of my articles I have the images about a paragraph down, at least the first image. This is why. Search Engines don’t read Images but they do read something the various descriptions you put in the images when you load them. More on that subject another time.
I want to explain something quickly. I haven’t been overly active in really trying to pull people into my site. I know how things work. I mainly work on creating. A lot of what I create does not lend itself to SEO or Search Engine Optimization results. If you are writing articles like this then you should use everything you can. For my poetry, I’m not going to write the first lines of my poetry so Search Engines will like it more.
I hope this helps.
Much Respect
Chef Ronovan
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 30, 2014.
ronovanwrites 
I like the way you put this, er… maybe cause I have not yet had any breakfast… But still smiling. Thanks. I will keep this in mind.
LikeLike
It’s kind of a no brainer, but I never looked at it like that. Thanks for the help!!
LikeLike
You would be surprised how many people are just into sharing their thoughts and creation and then don’t think of in way what I call the ‘advertising’ of it. A lot of creative people just don’t think like that. I have a marketing background. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks for the tips Ron! Would you mind explaining *why* they recommend you have a maximum of 15 tags, though? Is there a cap on what SEO can take from your blog, or is it for another reason?
I always tag my posts, but as I’m going along and progressing I’m thinking “I should have tagged that post with suchandsuch”. One day I’ll end up with 100s of tags… oops!
LikeLike
I’ll work on more articles about this. But you can almost be spammy with the tags. Make sure your title has a few key words in it. In other words don’t get cutesy really.
Don’t overuse those key words within the article. Search Engines don’t like it.
Use clickable images with text descriptions within to also help describe the article.
At times a Search Engine will look at the Tags and then the category or categories it’s attached to and confusion happens. The more you have the more confusion. Not really the right phrasing but just think of it that way. But Tags are for your readers so do what feels right. I usually don’t go over 12 myself. Otherwise I am usually stretching.
I’ll do further posts on tags as well.
I hope this helped.
Much Respect
Ronovan
LikeLike
i’ll keep these things in mind 🙂
LikeLike
I’m never sure what to tag things and I have been known to put an image at the top of an article. Thanks for the information. It can be confusing. I’d like to inspire as many people as possible. 🙂
LikeLike
Thanks for the insight
Bon Appetit!
LikeLike
Thanks Ronovan. I have trouble sometimes thinking of what to put in a tag. So this was a helpful reminder. Sometimes I dislike classifying my writing… It feels very unartistic. But I have learned that it is something you just have to do.
LikeLike
Once again, many thanks for the tips, Ronovan. I always start my posts with an image but it sounds like that is not such a good thing to do. I’m not very good when it comes to tagging, usually don’t include enough, but having now read your tips on tagging, I’ll certainly start adding 10 tags to each new post, but never anymore than 15.
LikeLike