How do I hide my keywords?

keywords or tags?

Pardon me, I meant tags.

edit your template files, and remove the bit that says <p><?php the_tags(); ?></p> or very similar. It will be in the loop.

Fantastic, thanks so much. I just want to be sure that even though the tags won’t be diplayed they will still serve the function of getting my page indexed by search engines. Will the tags still serve their intended function?

BTW, I checked out village-idiot.org and really enjoyed it. Thanks for offering support to newbies like me.

do you have a tag cloud? searchbots are just like us, they follow links.

You could always hide them from the browser with CSS, and the links would still be there. That’s a smidge of a hack though, and if you use a lot of tags could prove ugly.

I do not have a tag cloud. I like the idea of a tag cloud but I am going for a minimalist look.

Basically what I’m trying to do is “have my cake and eat it too”. I want the indexing that tags and tag clouds give but without having to actually see them. I’ve searched forums and various search engines to get an idea as to how to execute this sort of thing but have found very little pertinent information.

So by deleting the line of code you’d previously mentioned will the tags still serve their function as far as search engines seeing them goes?

Thanks

So by deleting the line of code you’d previously mentioned will the tags still serve their function as far as search engines seeing them goes?

No. Like I said, search engines follow links.

I see, thanks ??