Simple Tags is a plugin for WordPress that helps the user choose the most relevant tag to go with their post.
Let’s face it, over-tagging is a problem that some bloggers are guilty of. It is so tempting to use as many tags that could possibly be relevant to the post. Tagging within a site helps with that website’s organization. So… over-tagging or even incorrectly tagging does not help the website, especially if people are honestly searching for certain posts.
Simple Tags can help by analyzing the content in the post and producing already existing tags within the site. They also have the option to have results from Yahoo!, Zemanta, and OpenCalais, Alchemy API, and Tag The Net. A few of the resources do require signing up and getting an API code in order to use.
Now, sometimes the suggested tags may not be enough, or you may know that there are some tags available in your WordPress backend from previous posts. There is a second field to choose internal existing tags.
To choose a tag, you only have to click the tag and it will be added.
Another great feature that it has is mass editting tags, and auto tagging. So, you can set the plugin to recognize that if certain tags are used in posts, they will be auto-tagged with that word.
Now, there is one thing that I am a little puzzled about as there is an added box to the right for simple tags. This box does nothing. However the plugin works great as it is.
This might not be a handy plugin for new sites, but for ones that are older and may have a thousand posts or more, it is a nice help to come up with the most relevant tags. I only caution that there are some suggested tag results produced that may not always seem usable, so it is up to the blogger to use at their own risk. In other words, do not just choose every tag suggested.
Have you tried Simple Tags? If so, what did you think of it?
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Hello,
i read your blog about WordPress Plugin, its really nice. its helpful for those person who are aware of knowledge about plugging.
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I have never heard of that plugin. I use ScribeSEO and inside the interface it takes my content and suggests the best tags for me. Have been having decent luck with that so far.
Have your tried it?
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I do not use ScribeSEO. There are plenty of free tools to do the job like combining WordPress SEO and Simple Tags.
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I was once a Scribe user and I thought their tag suggestions were good. But I now use ‘Yoast WordPress SEO’ and ‘Simple Tags’ both of which are free. I find Simple Tags to be much superior.
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Oops! I just checked my plugins page and it’s NOT ‘Simple Tags’ that I use, rather it ‘Strictly Auto Tags’. I’ve used ‘Simple Tags’ at one point, but I now like ‘Strictly Auto Tags’ and I think it’s a great plugin.
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This is one plugin I wanted to play around with but never got around to it. I actually had to delete quite a few plugins because they were slowing my site(s) down pretty bad.
A lot of plugins are simply overkill, and I figured that this plugin was probably one of those ones as well.
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Antonio
This really looks like one I could use, never heard of it but will check it out. Thanks.
I am glad I went to this site, these are great ideas you suggested. I belong to a few Article, but someone I never thought or heard of. I will join some of what you suggested. Thanks.
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Very nice review. Thanks a lot for sharing.
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i have never used Simple Tags but as your description it seems very helpful plugin to get appropriate tags
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I have been struggling with this problem on WordPress for a while now. This helps a lot. Thanks for sharing!
i have never heard about this plugin its very nice and important thanks for sharing..
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Nile, thank you for sharing this plugin with us. Does this plugin also re-tag prior posts automatically? Or would we need to do that ourselves. I like the idea of this plugin, but like others I’m trying to reduce the total number of plugins on my blogs, so I’m not sure I’ll use this at this time.
Hi! First I’d like to thank you for these useful information. But I have my own point of view I’d like to share.
I think it isn’t the correct way to write a post and then search for keywords. It should be the other way around if you want to make a good search engine optimized post on your blog. I think any blogger with well formed On-Site optimization skills would agree when I say that tags should be known in advance before even writting a post.
Like for example if I want to write about “pregnancy” and “miscarriage”, I will make sure in advance that my post contains a few of both terms and also terms related to these terms.
Still what do you think is the optimum tag numer? Four? Five?
Thanks for the article and see you around.
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Hi Grega! I usually say between 2 to 8 tags is good. However, you should always make sure all keywords are relevant to each individual article as well.
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I have a rule I don’t use more than three tags. I think putting more that 5 doesn’t do you any good. And about this plugin… I just added it. So thank you very much
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Hi Nile ,
This looks like an interesting piece of plugin. I’m going to get it right away for a try. thanks for sharing it
Happy blogging!
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Nice plugin but i never tried it but after reading this post going to give it a shot thanks for sharing it with us Nile…
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Good advice, I haven’t used this plugin. Your post caught my eye because I just did a post today recommending certain plugins for new bloggers, any bloggers actually.
Still I always wonder when too much is reached…seems like there are multiple plugins that do the same thing and when will google say … its too much.
I know I shouldn’t let fear control me, but I do try to pick non-competing plugins. I use all in one seo and that seems to do a good job. Still I’l like to have a plugin that told me the top 5 words by count as I write an article, those would probably be the best KW to use as tags.
Thanks
Rob
See the above. k? forgot the http?
Rob
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I just knew about this tag plugin.
Btw, do you have any recommendations for Serve scaled images plugin?
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Like for optimizing images? WPSmush.it does a good job
Hi,
Great plugin!
Great plugin and nice review. Thanks a lot for sharing with us
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Cool. Thank you. I’m just starting to learn everything WordPress and it’s a bit overwhelming. I’m having a friend migrate my site. Wish me luck!
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this plugin help me a lot in arranging my content, actually i do not want to use too much tags and this plugin help a lot thanks for post and review.
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From this article, Simple Tags seems very helpful. Thanks. WordPress plugins and themes make things easy as long as you use the right ones.
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This is a great plug-in..i am using it on one of mine blog..and must say this is awesome..thanks for reviewing this here..
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this nice plugin , i am using it now for my wordpress
thank you for this information
I haven’t tried simple tags. I think of my own tags to be used and insert it on the tags manually.
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I am using this Simple tag plugin. It’s really a great plugin and you can put all your relevant tags related to your post at one place. Thanks for your review.
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Oh, thanks! there are plenty of tips that I’d gladly use! I follow your blog since December 2012 (not long) but already attached to reading you)) Thanks!
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Great advice. I am starting with wordpress and this article really help me to develop my site. Thank you
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Hi Nile,
I’ve read about STT2 and the auto tagging plugin is banned by Google. Is this plugin not burden our blog? Is this plugin will also affect to our SEO?
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No, you only use the plugin when you are writing the article, and click to get results. The auto-tagging is more of a suggestion feature, and does not tag the post automatically. It just automatically produces tag results for you to choose from. However, not all tags suggested should be used as they may not be coherent or relative to the article. The tagging suggestion is allowed.
Twitter: Yourinda
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Hi Nile,
thanks to your post I understand tags better.
When I did a search in regards to one of my posts, one of the results that showed up was a tag, and that was on Google.
It is great to have an overview of the plugin!
Thanks again!
Cheers,
Yorinda
Yes tags are such a chore, thanks for the tip, I will give Simple Tags a try. I also use SEO Yoast which is great for optimising posts.
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Hi Nile, Sorry to say, but i didint try it, so i dont know what more to say about it. But it was easy to read and i enjoyed your article. Thanks!
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Thanx for sharing this post,I agree with your post…I hope your post is help to made my site best…..
Thanx again for sharing….
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This plugins seems to be very nice. It will make it easy to use most used tags by us. So it will be great to have such a plugin for us. Nice post.
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I guess if you use tags having this plugin would make sense. I am not that experienced with wordpress or website design, but I have been struggling to come up with a good reason to put tags in posts. Seems like categories are more useful. Just my opinion though…
really informative and helpful review.thanks admin.keep it up.
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nice and informative post.thanks.keep it up.
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It was really impressive article. Really interesting post indeed. Thanks for sharing such a great information.
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Hi Nile, Sorry to say, but i didint try it, so i dont know what more to say about it. But it was easy to read and i enjoyed your article. Thanks
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I heard before about the plugin but I not use that.Now I will go for use of it for sure.Thanks for sharing information about this plugin.
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I heard before about the plugin but I not use that.Actually I am not using any plugin for tags, but Now I will go for use of it for sure.
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Great article with good description about “wordpress plugin” thanks a lot for this useful information and i bookmarked this blog post.
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hello Nile good to read this article about the plugins i did not try it yet but now i wanna try it, thanks
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Hey Nile,
Nice post and Thanks for sharing this plugin with us. I never heard about this plugin before and believe me I never used a plugin for tag but this plugin really seems interesting and now I am thinking of installing it.
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Funny I found this site and this post. Just started to look at this plugin and this post helped a lot.
Thanks!
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very nice plug-in, it\’ll surely save a tonnes of time of the admin in searching relepuant tags by itself.Keep sharing!!!
Hi Nile.I always select tags for my post because tags are to be related with the post and should be relevent to the post..as you mentioned about the plugin it seems good,i also like its auto tagging option.Nice share.