Simple Tags is getting annoying

Those are tag pages. WordPress creates them to index the tags, much like it creates category pages to index the categories. That’s sort of the whole point of using tags in the first place, to associate various posts together.

The search engines probably index them because you have links to them on your posts pages.

Thanks for your reply, Otto.

Is it ok for all the /tag/ pages to be indexed in Google?

Would you redirect all the /tag/ pages to individual posts with those tags or redirect them to the Homepage? Or, would you leave them as is.

Thanks

Also, do fellow WordPress users recommend using SEO Pack and Simple Tags or to get rid of one or the other for the best results…

Hello…

I am sort of a newbie. So far, so good. But for the life of me, I cannot figure out tags…is there a place I can read about them. Having a problem finding specific topics on WordPress Documentation..

Thanks so much!
elaine

Elaine, from what I understand “tags” are keywords that you associate your posts with. Categories are simply “the sections in the supermarket”. You have a few of those but you could have thousands of tags.

Each post should be tagged with keywords associated to that particular post.

What I don’t understand is should All-in-one SEO pack be used in addition to Simple Tags. Finally, tagging posts in Simple Tags creates a new page for that particular tag.

If you have a post tagged with “obama, president, stimulus, america” those four “tags” will have individual pages created for them.

The problem I have with this is that users coming in from search land on these blank and relatively DULL pages instead of the homepage or particular posts.

I don’t know if this is because of Simple Tags or just the way wordpress is structured.

While some people have chimed in on tags and etc. I have yet to understand the best approach for tagging articles (whether its SEO pack, Simple Tags, or both)

Is it ok for all the /tag/ pages to be indexed in Google?

Can’t think of any reason not to have them indexed.

Would you redirect all the /tag/ pages to individual posts with those tags or redirect them to the Homepage? Or, would you leave them as is.

I’d leave them, but if you want to reformat them to look differently, that’s certainly an option.

The idea behind tags, like categories, is to associate posts together. If somebody is reading your article and clicks on a tag, then presumably, they want more of your articles with that tag, yeah?

Also, do fellow WordPress users recommend using SEO Pack and Simple Tags or to get rid of one or the other for the best results…

Tags are built into WordPress, Simple Tags just adds a few capabilities to them. It’s not a necessary plugin.

I don’t personally use the SEO Pack plugin, but many people like it. I dislike it myself, because I think it adds a lot of unnecessary overhead, but then I know enough about PHP and WordPress to be able to edit my themes to do the same sort of things that the SEO plugin does, so I’d not recommend against it, per se.