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September 25, 2017 By Dave Nevue Leave a Comment

WordPress Categories and Tags – SEO Basics

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Are you confused about the difference between categories and tags associated with your WordPress blog? If you are you are not alone. In this post, I will be talking about how to optimize your WordPress categories and tags for the search engines.

 

WordPress Categories And Tags – SEO Basics

 

 

WordPress makes it easy for you to manage your content with specific topics. This not only makes it easier for you to manage your content but it also makes it easier for your audience to find the information they are searching for. One of your goals should be to keep your readers on your site for as long as possible.

Creating a strategic marketing plan for your categories will not only make your customers happy but you will also help search engines like Google and Bing understand more about your artist blog.

 

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Most new art bloggers are confused with how to properly use categories and tags in WordPress in the beginning. I was too confused in the beginning, but now I understand how powerful they are.

Think of categories as the table of contents in a book or Pinterest Boards on your Pinterest account.

 

WordPress Categories and Tags - SEO Basics

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For example, on your artist blog, you can have categories called “Art Gallery”, “Art Techniques”, “How to Buy Art”, and “Policies”.

You can showcase all of your art for sale under your “Art Gallery” category.

Blog posts that relate to your art techniques can be placed in the “Art Techniques” category and so on.

When people land on your Homepage they will be able to find the information they are interested in very easily.

Tags are different and this is where most people start to get confused.

Tags are specific words that describe the content of a post, like red rose painting, white rose painting or pink rose painting.

 

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Tags will make it easy for your readers to find similar content on your art blog.

The tags are generally at the bottom of a post.

 

Understanding WordPress Taxonomies

I am going to try to keep this short and to the point so I don’t bore you and have you falling asleep on me.

Categories and tags are known as taxonomies.

Codex WordPress.org describes taxonomies as:

“In WordPress, a “taxonomy” is a grouping mechanism for some posts (or links or custom post types). The names for the different groupings in a taxonomy are called terms. Using groupings of animals as an example, we might call one group “birds”, and another group “fish”.”

 

The sole purpose of taxonomies is to improve the usability of your site by sorting out the content you publish.

 

Organizing Your Content Best Practices

Categories were designed for general groupings of your posts and are the table of contents for your art blog. They help to tell the visitor and search engines what your site has to offer.

Categories are hierarchical. These are also known as the parent categories and are displayed in the menu bar of a site.

 

WordPress Categories and Tags - SEO Basics

 

Categories can also be broken down into sub-categories also known as child categories.

 

wordpress categories and tags

 

In the example above, “Blog” is the parent category and “Content Marketing”, “Social Media Marketing”, etc. are the child categories.

The reader will have the choice to see what the newest blog post is by clicking on the “Blog” category or they will have the option to find a specific post from a child category.

You will want to take some time to decide on what categories you would like to have on your art blog.

Be strategic and plan. Think about your vision and goals and create categories that will cater to them.

One common mistake I see many new bloggers do is they do not plan. They just create categories for any and everything. In time the blog becomes a mess and difficult for the visitors to navigate throughout the site.

If you do not know how to create categories, visit my WordPress Basics course.

 

Organizing Tags

The main goal for tags is to make it easy for your reader to find similar content. This will have your readers stay on your site longer which will help you to rank higher in the search engines.

The best way to go about this is to generate a list of about twenty words that will best describe your content. Any post you create can be tagged with one or more of the words that best describe your content.

For example, if you create a review post for oil paints you could use paints, supplies, oil paints, etc. as your tags. Any new posts that relate to these “keywords” can also be tagged with them. In time you will have a list of content your readers can view that relate to a particular subject.

 

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Conclusion:

Taking some time to plan ahead will help you to optimize your art blog for your readers and search engines. WordPress categories and tags are powerful tools that will help you to separate yourself from your competitors.

 

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Dave Nevue is a Professional Graphite Artist and the founder and CEO of Nevue Fine Art Marketing. He also authored the eBook The Productive Artist How to Live Your Dreams, and provides courses on art marketing at Nevue Fine Art Marketing Courses.

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