The importance and purpose of Tags on Steemit

The purpose of tags

 If there is one thing that I am familiar with and consider myself an expert its keywording, the value we are building here in Steemit depending largely on the quality of the content that we are creating, but even sometimes as we have seen here on Steemit many times beforem quality content does not always get rewarded. So its important that when we publish a good article we spend enough time considering good SEO tactics at the same time as posting quality original content like I am doing as I type. This being said I am not an expert per say todate, since I fell head over heels in love with cryptocurrency I have laid back from my SEO grey tactics and perhaps lost touch with the wonderfull world of manipulating search engines.

I am convinced that in the near future a blockchain will be used to index all content on the www, now would that not make the world a better place I ask myself.  

Tags have several usefull purposes in the blogosphere and in this post we will cover a few main points regarding this subject, newbies might find this article usefull to help increase view count on their posted articles. If you are a regular blogger and unsatisfied with your results maybe its time to look at simple solutions and how to use tags.

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1. Tags are great navigational tools for blogs, these help readers find related content. Tags in steemit can also be included in what used to be reffered to as categories. For example I have a cooking blog, and post an article about Spaguetti bolognese ,  for example by using the tags cooking, recipe, italian, pasta , Any user clicking on recipe will see an idex of all my recipe posts, and looking to be more specific click on pasta to see only posts about pasta related dishes.
2. Search Engines are more likely to index your content according to your content tags. As a long time online marketer I have managed to figure out a few dark ways to boost your exposure to search engines, if you google this subject you will find that most of the top 10 google search results disagree on this matter but Im convinced that tags are quite important to a blog or website when it comes to crawling.
3. Tags increase user engagement, say you discover a blog with content that suits you, if you are able to navigate the blog by tags you will be able to find and read more good content related to your interests.
4. Tags have several usefull purposes in the blogosphere and in this post we will cover a few main points regarding this subject, newbies might find this article usefull to help increase view count on their posted articles. If you are a regular blogger and unsatisfied with your results maybe its time to look at simple solutions
5.  The key when tagging is to ask yourself  yourself if you would be interested in  clicking on the tag when reaching for example  the bottom of the post. If you had just read an interesting post on my blog then it is likely that you would click on that tag or on a similar content tag, this would bring you to older posts from my blog that you would likely find interesting.

Im not a good writer, but I have great ideas...  

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