A few basic word press questions. What are tags? are they importent for SEO or just website organazation? How do i turn off pingback im not sure what they are...but im posting on some other forums and I post a link to my site, I get a random like comment on my site about my post not sure what it is for. When i link an article in another forum from my site the hyperlink title is my Post.website tittle...how do i change this? thanks guys
Tags are the word for your visitor to find your post using the search form in your blog. To configure the ping list in your wordpress, go to settings and then point to writing. You will see a form at the bottom for you to paste the urls of blog ping websites.
Have a look at below given. bloggingtips.com/2009/06/25/is-tagging-still-important-for-blog-posts/ It gives you little idea about tagging. DON.
Tags are very important in generating traffic.Always use them if you want traffic. Don't disable Ping.They work like RSS Feed.As you write a new post the pingback service knows it and again helps to generate traffic.