How to use Categories and Tags in WordPress

Submitted by brian on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 11:38

The use of categories and tags in WordPress (or any blogging system for that matter) can make it much easier for your audience to find content, in which they are interested, on your website. Furthermore, various search engine optimization plugins will use these categories and tags to populate the keywords for your blog post and thereby improve your ranking on the search engines for those keywords.

In general, categories are broad and general and tags are more specific. For example, this post could be placed in the "Training" category and have more specific tags such as "wordpress, blogging, search engine optimization" and so on.

The videos below illustrate how to create categories and tags and why this is important for the success of your website. The first video is short enough (1min 56sec) and the second one goes in to much greater detail for those of you who would like to become Category and Tag Ninjas! Have fun :)

http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/14/adding-categories-and-tags-to-your-posts/ 1min 56sec

http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/20/lorelle-vanfossen-tags-categories-portlan... 49min 33sec