How Many Tags?

[Data Glasses]

Any opinions on how many tags is best practice for a wordpress site
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Love to read your views thanks

 

[findtim]

all your answers are on youtube, just check the date of the upload
my opinion is "not many" and only REALLY relevant ones

don't spam google

tim

 

[Data Glasses]

all your answers are on youtube, just check the date of the upload
my opinion is "not many" and only REALLY relevant ones

don't spam google

tim

Have you done a search on the subject, many things other than the question being asked it seems, i have read 9 seems to be maximum ....... would be handy if other folk actually contributed on this FORUM

 

[helloworld]

Unless it's a blog then none. Categorise pages works better. Tags should only really be used for uncommon terms on the blog

 

[Data Glasses]

I normally use them to re-enforce the post title and subject matter

 

[helloworld]

Nah not a good strategy as it will cause dilution and mess with your hierarchy

 

[Data Glasses]

Nah not a good strategy as it will cause dilution and mess with your hierarchy

Thanks for your input, drive me nuts as this video says it all completely different, he does us the tag that is the same as the title, i would to read a few more comments about this
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Any views about tag clouds ?

 

[helloworld]

Well think about it this way

You're going to have /tag/keyword and you're going to have /category/keyword. Which one should be preferenced?

I believe tag clouds can cause issues. They are pretty 2007

 

[Data Glasses]

Can't say I have seen one for quite a while

 

[helloworld]

You know what's funny is a client just emailed me re: having a section for strata planning (whatever that is) on their website. They wanted it in the top menu and to only show strata planning posts. This was a perfect opportunity to use the tag feature in wordpress. I just added the menu item, /tag/strata and told them to tag all their strata posts with strata. To easy

 

[Ash]

You know what's funny is a client just emailed me re: having a section for strata planning (whatever that is) on their website. They wanted it in the top menu and to only show strata planning posts. This was a perfect opportunity to use the tag feature in wordpress. I just added the menu item, /tag/strata and told them to tag all their strata posts with strata. To easy

Any reason you wouldn't use a 'category' in this example? You could set strata as the category and then use related subjects as the tags, e.g. different strata sectors such as commercial strata, residential strata, retail strata etc...

 

[helloworld]

Any reason you wouldn't use a 'category' in this example? You could set strata as the category and then use related subjects as the tags, e.g. different strata sectors such as commercial strata, residential strata, retail strata etc...

Possibly because this thread was in my head lol? Nah I just wanted to keep it simple. If the client sets up the separate categories (as you've described) they can still mark them with the strata tag. It's probably much of a muchness. But I get what you're saying

 

[Ash]

Gotcha

I'm interested in learning how how other people use categories/tags because I'm not sure the way I'm doing it is such a great example.

Great topic spacey.

 

[Data Glasses]

Gotcha

I'm interested in learning how how other people use categories/tags because I'm not sure the way I'm doing it is such a great example.

Great topic spacey.

Well I have many questions and going by recent form I am one step forwards then two backwards, kinda hoping people with the answers will step up, grateful to those who have thus far !

 

[Data Glasses]

I sometimes tag the Interactive Comic with the two characters names, seems to make sense in this instance and i also attribute the post to both categories, more likely to do the two category thing though