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How To Use WordPress Tags and Categories Effectively

Tags and categories are great tools for organising your content in WordPress, and they should not be taken lightly. Right from the start you should decide on which categories to use, and consequentially how to tag your posts.
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Tags and categories are great tools for organising your content in WordPress, and they should not be taken lightly. Right from the start you should decide on which categories to use, and consequentially how to tag your posts.

We’ve already written about tags and categories in two posts here on WP Mayor:

As an addition to those however, I also came across two brilliant posts by Tom Ewer on the ManageWP blog, where he also talks about the SEO and usability side of WordPress tags and categories:

  • How to Tag Effectively
  • The Right Way to Use Categories and Tags

I highly recommend you check those posts out. While reading the posts I also came across a very good tool for tag and category maintenance:

So do you use tags on your blog?

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Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs AgentVania. Connect with him on X or LinkedIn, or visit jeangalea.com.

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One Response

  1. Very helpful information, Jean.
    I´ve already read those interesting posts by Tom Ewer, and I´ve also installed the Term Management Tools plugin!

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