The importance of tags

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   Mark Knowlesposted 15 years ago

   Thought I would share this one. I tagged one of my hubs:
   
   http://hubpages.com/hub/When-will-the-r … bottom-out
   
   with the tag "luxury goods" as I was talking about how the real estate bubble blew up the luxury goods bubble. This resulted in some very inappropriate google ads for expensive shoes all over the place. I have now removed that tag, the shoe ads are gone and I now have appropriate ads.

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      Eaglekiwiposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      buggar mark the shoe adds are the only ones I click on..

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         Mark Knowlesposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         Sorry to disappoint you.

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         Pearldiverposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         You deserve to be served on Vanila Ice Cream

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            Eaglekiwiposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            or Pavlova (or that still ours?) lol
            
            Walmarts gotta special on Kiwi-fruit and shoes Im in like Flyn ( grins)
            
            Mark youre gonna be sorry you missed out on the new crocs lol, tell you what ( im feeling generous)Ill grab the two for $4 deal then  the tan ones for you.

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               Mark Knowlesposted 15 years agoin reply to this

               I only buy new shoes when my wife makes me throw away my comfortable ones.

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                  Eaglekiwiposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                  they need to put shoe bins around the cities n towns,ewwww, but well many countries wouldnt be too proud to wear'em , just imagine some Tibetan goat farmer wearin youre old loafers perhaps.

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   Dame Scribeposted 15 years ago

   I often wonder about that myself how do I get dating ads on a Hub that has nothing to do with the content or attract people with pervy keywords? I am like...ewwww lol

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      Mark Knowlesposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Well, in this case I could identify a specific tag. I am sure you could do the same.

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   Dame Scribeposted 15 years ago

   As they are Hubs for Q & A ...would that have a difference?

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      Mark Knowlesposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I don't know - but I would look at your tags and see what might be causing it. It may just be that google was unable to supply appropriate ads and uses default ads. Which I guess at the moment seem to be about "marrying Indian girls" or "Dating Muslim girls" lol

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   Pearldiverposted 15 years ago

   Mark are you saying that you were able to ID the tag becz you had used it in only that article?

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   Dame Scribeposted 15 years ago

   I am so new at learning about tags, I will have to check them out lol

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   Dame Scribeposted 15 years ago

   Old shoes make good chew toys for my dogs lol

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      Eaglekiwiposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      lol

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      LondonGirlposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Sadly, in the case of my parents' puppy, all shoes (incl. new ones) are chewing toys...

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   ngurecoposted 15 years ago

   Are tags really important to Google? I thought Google uses the entire content of your hub.
   
   What I believe to be true is if I use similar tags to your hub, my hub will be grouped as similar to yours and your readers will be as good as mine. The opposite is also true.

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      dingdongposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Don't tags get least importance?

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      Mark Knowlesposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Yes - they seem to be important. By tagging a word or phrase you are telling google what is important to your page.

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   johnr54posted 15 years ago

   Tags on hubpages are actually outbound links with the anchor text of the tag, so it will be weighted more than the normal text on the page, something like a header tag.

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   Kudlitposted 15 years ago

   Thanks for sharing this Mark. Irrelevant really minimize affects the earning potential of a hubpage negatively.

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    getpaidtopostposted 15 years ago

    you need to always make you tags relevant and not to far away from the truth. make a hub about dogs and then add cats as a tag you will get a mix of dog ads and cat ads.

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    freelanceworldposted 15 years ago

    Though i just wrote about importance of tagging in my Part 3 Series about hubpages
    I think the Value of tagging is a real good hub about the topic
    A read good job by the author
    
    Hope that helps
    Regards

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