WordPress How To Use Category & Tag Pages For SEO

Content structuring is not easy, and its often times one of first issues I encounter when performing an SEO sudit. Over usage as well as under usage of tags and categories can really make a mess of your website's structure.

Implementing a solid system for managing your tags and categories can boost your website's SEO. I am going to attempt to explain how you can properly make use of categories and tags to improve your website's rankings.

Treat Category & Tag Archives As Landing Pages

One of the most common issues is that authors tend to set and forget their categories and tags. Category archives in particular can become excellent landing pages when properly optimized and in some situations such as on eCommerce website category pages can bring more traffic than your product listings.

When thinking about optimizing category archives as if they are landing pages it's important to perform the following tasks.