Tagging, and what it does for you in Google
by Sapphire (June 9, 2005)
A while back, I did some research on tagging your blog entries, and what it might do for your blog and its visitors. Today I discovered another unexpected benefit:
After a month or two of tagging, Google has indexed pages based around each of the tags I’ve used in my site. You know how Google will index the same posts over and over in different arrangements - category, archive page, entries by author, etc.? This gives them one more way to index every post on your site.
Definitely worth taking the time to tag your posts. I do also find that I get some searches through Technorati via the tags. At this point, where none of my sites are what you’d call “high traffic” (unless you’re one of my previous hosts who tried to get me on a dedicated server for this little site here), the tags are bringing me as much traffic as anything else. And as I add more posts, the amount of pages Google can index will increase exponentially, which should mean an exponential traffic increase.
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