Please clear some confusion - Technorati tag pages

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by dcristo, Nov 24, 2006.

  1. #1
    If I am using a wordpress blog, will the categories I setup automatically be used as technorati tags and your blog posts will be featured on the technorati tag pages relevant to the specific category you blogged in? If this is true, then what is the point in adding additional technorati tags to your blog post pages? I would imagine most of the traffic generated from technorati would be from the broad category tags, and not the more obscure tags? Or maybe not :confused:
     
    dcristo, Nov 24, 2006 IP
  2. cormac

    cormac Peon

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    #2
    Yes the category you place your post in will show up in technorati as a tag.

    People place the extra technorati tags in their posts to give readers more choices of finding related topics which in turns looses the visitor from the site after they finish reading the post.
     
    cormac, Nov 25, 2006 IP
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    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    #3
    Great, thanks for that. So basically avoid then yeah?
     
    dcristo, Nov 25, 2006 IP
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    Yeah if you want, I don’t use them.

    You can get tag plug-ins for the back end of WP instead of having so many categories.
     
    cormac, Nov 25, 2006 IP
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    bloggerpreneur Well-Known Member

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    Well, it depends. You could have a category called mobile phones, however, a tag name Cingular BlackJack might be more appropriate if you just wrote a post specifically about the Cingular BlackJack.

    If you are worried about vistors leaving your site via tags, use a plugin such as Ultimate Tag Warrior where this can be controlled.
     
    bloggerpreneur, Nov 25, 2006 IP
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    You don't have to lose anything as you can link the tags below your post to anywhere with tags.

    If you really want to be creative you just link them like below

    http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?tag=tagname

    Cheers.
     
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    Hey 30K can you recommend a plugin for that?
     
    cormac, Nov 28, 2006 IP
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    I use custom feeds with the tags already in place so I'm not sure which plugin does that. They might have to be hacked or something.
     
    30k Challenge, Nov 28, 2006 IP