Why you walk into a well organized shop, I guess you really don’t have to ask too many questions because most of the stuff you find there have small descriptions attached to them, giving some information, explanation or price. You and I will normally call them tags.

Tagged items are easy to notice and identity. The tags they carry tell us more about them. In blogging, tags can be seen as broader categories to which a post belongs, or in the simplest sense, the main keywords in a post.

Search engines love the title tags. Most web applications and blogging software use the title tags in the title of articles, that’s why it is very important to include keywords in post titles. When a user queries information from the search engines, it is more likely that most of the results will be from articles that have the search trems in their post titles.

In SEO, as important as keywords in post titles are also keywords in urls. Yes, the search engines don’t only look for post titles but they also look at the url of the content. That is why some urls are considered search engine friendly while others are not.

One thing I love very much with wordpress is the ability for a user to decide the exact url of a post. Normally, the url assigned to a post depends strictly on the title you give it. However, this url can be changed by simply clicking on the edit icon next to it and typing a new one.

When assigning a url to a post, I try making it as search engine friendly as possible. Depending very much on keywords in urls make the urls difficult to interpret by humans, but I think that’s OK. Humans should rely on post titles while search engines take care of long and boring urls. Don’t you think so?

A good url should contain major tags from the post content, category under which the post is filed, keywords from the post title, and also any relevant “big term” not mentioned anywhere in the post.

I wish I could call this SEO for Dummies. Ha ha ha. But this really isn’t what the Pros call SEO. We shall be looking at SEO for Dummies in the near future.

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