I’ve been working with a non-profit organisation recently who have ventured into the world of blogging. They’re set up on Wordpress, the staff are gradually showing each other a few tips and tricks that they’ve learned but when I went through their blog and reviewed some of their posts I thought “Hey, where’s all the tags?”

Where older Wordpress users might have made use of plugins like ‘Ultimate Tag Warrior’ for tagging their posts, Wordpress has a built in tag feature on the post pages since version 2.3.

From Wordpress 2.5 upwards, you simply enter your tags or keywords (separate the tags with commas) into the ‘Tags’ area beneath your ‘Post’ area and press the ‘Add’ button.

Don’t underestimate the power of adding tags to your post!

What are tags you ask? You can look at tags as labels or keywords to help identify your post within your blog. Tags help people searching your blog find what they’re looking for with greater ease. The use of tags on your blog posts also help your blog visibility on sites such as Technorati.

As the Technorati folk themselves say

Tags are labels that people use to make it easier to find blog posts, photos and videos that are related.

As with everyone I work with on a blogging level, if you’re adding tags to your post to help connect posts on your blog, why not register yourself for free on Technorati. It takes just a few minutes, doesn’t cost you anything and you might find you’ve got a new source for traffic for your blog rather quickly.

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