Comments on: Tags Made Easy With SimpleTags WordPress Plugin

By: A Search Bug With WordPress 2.1 and Ultimate Tag Warrior : Instigator Blog

A Search Bug With WordPress 2.1 and Ultimate Tag Warrior : Instigator Blog — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:11:54 +0000

[...] SimpleTags is still the easiest way to get Technorati tags on your blog, to help Technorati users find you. But on Andy Beard’s suggestion I decided to give Ultimate Tag Warrior another try. [...]

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:21:51 +0000

Andy – the problem I've had with UTW isn't server load slowing the blog down, it's been slowness for posting, editing content through the WordPress Admin. Somehow UTW has just made it a bit clunkier.

But I do like how you've created tag pages that link internally but still work for Technorati.

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:21:51 +0000

Andy – the problem I’ve had with UTW isn’t server load slowing the blog down, it’s been slowness for posting, editing content through the WordPress Admin. Somehow UTW has just made it a bit clunkier.

But I do like how you’ve created tag pages that link internally but still work for Technorati.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:01:52 +0000

I get more than 50% of my search engine traffic to my tag pages created with UTW, and no leaks to Technorati.

You have to have traffic to have to worry about server load.

There were some good performance tweaks available for UTW before WP 2.1 was introduced, but most blogs don't have enough traffic to worry about it.
UTW for WP2.1 has a couple of teething problems for some people, but I haven't had any performance issues so far.

I would at least stick nofollow on the Technorati links, but it is much better having them go to internal pages.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:01:52 +0000

I get more than 50% of my search engine traffic to my tag pages created with UTW, and no leaks to Technorati.

You have to have traffic to have to worry about server load.

There were some good performance tweaks available for UTW before WP 2.1 was introduced, but most blogs don’t have enough traffic to worry about it.
UTW for WP2.1 has a couple of teething problems for some people, but I haven’t had any performance issues so far.

I would at least stick nofollow on the Technorati links, but it is much better having them go to internal pages.

By: Dave C.

Dave C. — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:23:09 +0000

This has been one of those subjects I've been meaning to get to. Thanks for making it simple for us, not that it was that difficult in the first place. Just needed someone to light the fire.

By: Dave C.

Dave C. — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:23:09 +0000

This has been one of those subjects I’ve been meaning to get to. Thanks for making it simple for us, not that it was that difficult in the first place. Just needed someone to light the fire.

By: Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:56:32 +0000

I've had the opposite experience… I get quite a bit of traffic from Technorati for anotherblogger.com – mostly for tech or political subjects.

By: Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:56:32 +0000

I’ve had the opposite experience… I get quite a bit of traffic from Technorati for anotherblogger.com – mostly for tech or political subjects.

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:39:43 +0000

David – from what I’ve seen, very few people click the links. I wouldn’t be surprised if people clicked one of the tags and were surprised to land on Technorati’s site though…

I’ve had a few posts show up nicely for popular tags which generated good traffic, but as I pointed out – the traffic is few and far between from Technorati.