You have it backwards… “meta keywords” are no longer useful for SEO. Tags and categories, as used on WP posts, have value for SEO.
Aha, I was once told the opposite. So the tags that I add in my WordPress admin are visible to and used by search engines like Google?
If your theme displays them or you add tags to your site’s sitemap.xml, yes.
My site doesn’t display them:
http://blog.josephholmes.io
And the only thing I do is add them to the Admin page’s Tags text box, so no, I’m not adding them to my site’s sitemap — but I’m talking about tags for each blog entry, not for the entire site
Install the plugin “WordPress SEO” https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wordpress-seo/. Under the sitemap settings, tell it to create sitemaps for tags. Then go to Google Webmaster tools and submit your sitemap.
Okay — so I’ve upgraded my Thesis theme, I’ve installed the WordPress SEO plug-in (Yoast SEO), but I do not see any pane that includes sitemap settings, not under the Yoast SEO settings or anywhere else in the WP dashboard.
Can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
Thanks for that.
It gets involved! I now have to go through the process of verifying my site with a Google file uploaded and confirmed, and only then go to the Google sitemap tools.
But I’m on the right path. thanks for the help!
