Tags & Categories

Tags and categories are a place that I focus when I want to spend a little time improving our website’s SEO or Search Engine Optimization, which means our position in Google search.

On this website, we have over 270 blog posts! Most of these blog posts are optimized quite well, but there’s always more that can be done. One area that I have been focusing on lately, is tags and categories.

What I do is go into the Posts area on the backend of our WordPress website and go through the history of all posts. I look for tags and categories that can be added.

For example, if a post only has two or three tags, I will add an additional 2 to 3 tags. If a post is in only one category, I will add an additional one or two categories.

In this way, the post is getting updated and the website is becoming larger. Every time a tag or a category is added to a post it creates another index.

The more indexes a website has, the better it’s going to rank in SEO. Additionally, the more often the website is updated the better it is going to rank as well.

So going through and updating all posts by adding more tags and categories is a really good SEO exercise, in my opinion.

Have questions about other things you could be doing to improve the SEO of your website? Drop me a message on my contact page.
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Brian says:
January 26, 2021 at 11:21 am

Just went through my posts and added more tags. Only had 2-3 tags on most of them, thank you.
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- Jophiel Silvestrone says:
  February 2, 2021 at 12:28 pm
  
  Great idea, Brian! The more the tags are updated on the posts, the better the SEO is going to be on your website (:
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Jophiel Silvestrone has written 326 posts in the Tech Blog.

Jophiel grew up on a ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana near Chico Hot Springs. Working on the ranch instilled work ethic and self motivation. Filled with this drive, Jophiel started mowing the local school's yards twice a month throughout the summers, at the age of 12. He moved to Billings in 2004, where he has been deeply involved in the local business community ever since. A serial entrepreneur, Jophiel has ran multiple businesses in our local community. The first business, a janitorial and carpet cleaning company, founded in 2005, has employed over 50 locals. Moving on to the media industry, Jophiel and several partners founded Green Directory Montana in the spring of 2007. Green Directory's sustainability ranking software awarded points based on sustainable or "green" actions. These points counted towards a business's total "Green Score," which in turn ranked them against other businesses in their category and throughout the entire site. It also featured a limited edition print version distributed annually. A business acquisition allowed Jophiel to focus on new projects, and a few close business colleagues and Jophiel started Rocky Mountain Mr. & Ms. Magazine, a lifestyle publication for men and women in the Magic City. After a year and a half at the helm of RM3 Magazine, the business was purchased. He now runs a web development company SkyPoint Studios and fathers his son Jaoquin, who plays football, basketball, soccer, and is learning snowboarding from his dad. Recently, has expanded to locations in Havasu, Arizona & Vegas. SkyPoint Studios is a market leader in both Billings & Havasu and Jophiel is working on building that same level of market dominance in Vegas. Specialties: Extensive experience in online and offline business. Especially savvy at WordPress, and operate several sites, one example is the blog: skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com/tech-blog. Check out skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com for the latest projects from SkyPoint Studios.