Moving The Post Tags From The Top Of The Post To The Bottom To Free Up Space - How?

Hi guys,

On my blog I try to rank in the search engines by using the title of my post and a lot of the time it works, however the post tags that I use take up quite a lot of space (the first 3 or 4 lines usually) of the blog post, and so is using up valuable space.
I was wondering if I can shift the post tags to the bottom of the post to free up some space at the top? And if I do this, is it likely that my SERPS would be affected at all?

Would appreciate any advice on this.


Thanks!

 

If I understand correctly you want to move your tags from top of your post to the bottom of your post. This means you are using a theme which has code to display the tags on top of your post. Moving that part of the code to the bottom will move your tags. In your page.php and single.php and may be also on index.php you will have some code like this:
<?php wp_tag_cloud(''); ?>
or
<?php the_tags('My Tags: ',' > '); ?>

Identify this code and move it to the location where you want to display the tags.

Regarding SERPS I think there is no defiend rule exactly how Google will produce SERP for your page. Though it is mostly trial and error process I am sure there are some good expert in these forum who can shed more light on how SERPs are generated by search engines and how you can get your expected text in SERP.

 

Thanks very much otshare. I would very much like it if someone could give me advice on whether this will affect my SERPS or not. If it definitely wont then I will do it, but if theres a chance of it affecting my site negatively then I'll just leave it how it is. Thanks again!

 

None can come up with a working advice when it comes to SERPs and you must be aware of it.

Why dont you try to split test? This wud provide you a quick solution.

Test for a week and then let us know what you found out. I would be all ears. Thanks.