Should I hyphenate tags on my blog?
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Should I hyphenate tags on my blog?
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Hi Kandice,
Personally, I don't use tags on blogs. Why? They are unnecessary and could confuse search engines.
In my opinion a blog post needs:
- author pages
- category pages
if you are able to post every day, or more, then your teasers appearing on the category pages will be OK. But with less regular updates, I would recommend using the Excerpts feature on WordPress so your category pages contain unique content that differs from the main blog teasers. With your author pages, which are needed to attempt to appear in Google News and/or get rich snippets in Google SERPs (unless you send a rel=author tag to the About page on a single author blog) that have the potential to display author images in the results; I would recommend only showing the titles of previous posts.The above tactics ensure you avoid potential duplicate content issues where you lose control of the page that will get links / be shared / appear in the results.Basically given these needs, why include tags that could risk losing control of the above?
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