<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><channel><title>Social Media Examiner | Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO | Topic Replies</title> <atom:link href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/feed/</link> <description>Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO - Forum Topic in the Group Blogging</description> <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 19:06:15 +0000</pubDate> <generator>http://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.5</generator> <language>en</language> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35894</guid><title><![CDATA[Don Sturgill replied to the forum topic Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35894</link> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:20:26 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/roadturn/" title="Don Sturgill" rel="nofollow">Don Sturgill</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/" rel="nofollow">Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> Without an ample stream of readers, Nick (SEO) ... it doesn't matter how well organized you are.</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35892</guid><title><![CDATA[Nick Rock replied to the forum topic Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35892</link> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:44:04 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/" title="Nick Rock" rel="nofollow">Nick Rock</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/" rel="nofollow">Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/blogsbyheather/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/blogsbyheather/' rel="nofollow">@blogsbyheather</a> Uhm, try Google, it's kinda famous as All In One SEO plugin and it's also free :-)<div></div><div></div><p> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/roadturn/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/roadturn/' rel="nofollow">@roadturn</a> Hi Don,<div></div><div>Thanks for your message. I'm still unsure how to separate all the content, my main focus is [&#8230;]</div> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35771</guid><title><![CDATA[Don Sturgill replied to the forum topic Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35771</link> <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:11:25 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/roadturn/" title="Don Sturgill" rel="nofollow">Don Sturgill</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/" rel="nofollow">Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> Not long ago, Nick, I would have said Categories are for SEO and tags are for internal searches (a user tool). Recently, though, I've noticed sites using do-follow tags for SEO.&#160;<div></div><div>I guess it all depends upon your [&#8230;]</div> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35742</guid><title><![CDATA[Heather Wright-Porto replied to the forum topic Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35742</link> <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:03:43 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/blogsbyheather/" title="Heather Wright-Porto" rel="nofollow">Heather Wright-Porto</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/" rel="nofollow">Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><a class="mention" href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/" title="Mention Nick Rock" rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/' rel="nofollow">@nickrock</a>&#160;</span></div><div>Hmmm. I haven't heard of that one.</div><div>Is it a paid for plugin or free?</div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Heather :D</div> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35656</guid><title><![CDATA[Nick Rock replied to the forum topic Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35656</link> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:31:58 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/" title="Nick Rock" rel="nofollow">Nick Rock</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/" rel="nofollow">Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> Hi&#160; <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/blogsbyheather/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/blogsbyheather/' rel="nofollow">@blogsbyheather</a><div>Thanks for your suggestion! Have used the All in One SEO plugin before but I'm using Yoast SEO since a couple of months for all my websites as my preferred plugin ;-)</div><div></div><div></div> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35643</guid><title><![CDATA[Heather Wright-Porto replied to the forum topic Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35643</link> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 14:53:10 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/blogsbyheather/" title="Heather Wright-Porto" rel="nofollow">Heather Wright-Porto</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/" rel="nofollow">Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> Hi Nick!<div>I would also suggest your use the free, popular and recommended All In One SEO WordPress plugin. In WP you can go to Plugins on your Dashboard and do a search for it there.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><a class="mention" href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/" title="Mention Nick Rock" rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/' rel="nofollow">@nickrock</a></span></div><div></div><div></div> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35550</guid><title><![CDATA[Nick Rock replied to the forum topic Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35550</link> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:39:17 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/" title="Nick Rock" rel="nofollow">Nick Rock</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/" rel="nofollow">Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow">@kristi-hines</a> Thank you for your suggestions Kristi!&#160;<div>I guess if I remove the "categories" slug from the URL to have domain.com/post-name it would be the easiest way. Also a description added to the category [&#8230;]</div> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35382</guid><title><![CDATA[Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35382</link> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:59:11 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/" title="Kristi Hines" rel="nofollow">Kristi Hines</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/" rel="nofollow">Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/' rel="nofollow">@nickrock</a> It depends on how you use them. Since you can nofollow your tags / categories, it's not that big of an issue. &#160;I look at them as more for organization. &#160;I like to make my tags more descriptive than the [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35367</guid><title><![CDATA[Nick Rock replied to the forum topic Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35367</link> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:32:58 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/" title="Nick Rock" rel="nofollow">Nick Rock</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/" rel="nofollow">Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/' rel="nofollow">@kristi-hines</a><div>Hi Kristi,this is what I thought as well but what about the SEO things? Using tags with the same name as the category and in different variations, wouldn't be that called keyword stuffing and [&#8230;]</div> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35364</guid><title><![CDATA[Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO in the club Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/#post-35364</link> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:06:12 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/kristi-hines/" title="Kristi Hines" rel="nofollow">Kristi Hines</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/advice-needed-wordpress-categories-tags-seo/" rel="nofollow">Advice needed – Wordpress Categories, Tags, SEO</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/" rel="nofollow">Blogging</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/nickrock/' rel="nofollow">@nickrock</a> I always think about my categories in terms of what people will see if they just went to a category page. &#160;So if someone goes to your Facebook category, all of the post you listed should be under it. [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> </channel> </rss>