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   livewithrichardposted 14 years ago

   It would be nice to be able to bulk load tags intead of painstakingly adding them one at a time.  If anything, it would save a whole lot of time.

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   HealthTipposted 14 years ago

   I know, if you find a formula mail me it

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      livewithrichardposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      LOL I will.  I don't think it would be too hard to add a box to add all your tags at once at the first stage of creating a hub.  Right now it only asks for two to get started, I'm sure the HP team can come up with a better solution.

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   habeeposted 14 years ago

   Ditto what Healthtip said! Sure would make life easier.

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   Marisa Wrightposted 14 years ago

   I thought it wasn't a good idea to have excessive numbers of tags?
   
   I add two at the start, then look at the "suggested tags" once I've finished.  That usually covers most of the ones I wanted, anyway, and it's a matter of seconds to click and add them.

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      darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      It's not. And if we could 'bulk load' them the spammers would have a field day.

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         livewithrichardposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Bulk load was probably the wrong way to phrase it, being able to load multiple tags at the start of the hub would save some time.  I really don't give a crap what the spammers do, I'm writing for me.  Spammers aren't going to take the time to do proper SEO. 
         
         Then again, I'm not so sure how much weight tags carry anyway.  As far as I can tell, they are only good for searching here on HP and for allowing the Google Adsense script to place relevant ads.

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            johnr54posted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Here's a look at how tags can help even for Google
            
            http://hubpages.com/hub/Hubpages-Traffic-Use-of-Tags

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               livewithrichardposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               That's a good hub on tags John.  I see the value of tags as a system of internal linking though they carry little weight on their own as keywords. (Though I rarely use a tag that isn't also used as a keyword in my hub.)
               
               The only problem I'm having with them is the fact that now I can only enter 2 and then I have to use the mouse after each additional entry.  Am I the only one having that problem? I use to be able to type in a tag and hit enter but now I have to reach over for the mouse..lol yes it seems trivial but it slows me down.

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   Rick Marlowposted 14 years ago

   when my readers numbers drop off,I update the tags and it goes back up.Do you have to do that every day to each hub?

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   johnr54posted 14 years ago

   Most platforms like Wordpress will let you add several at a time by separating them with commas.  That would help some.

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      livewithrichardposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      That's what I would like to see here too.

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   Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago

   My tags show up as a separate search engine listing. So I really do think that they help SEO and I plan them as they do. Don't care what anyone else says.
   
   But they aren't the most important SEO that I do either. Never waste a chance to attract a BOT is my attitude.

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   KCC Big Countryposted 14 years ago

   I've noticed that too, Nelle.  Have I lost my mind or weren't we able to load as many as we wanted by simply clicking the enter key when we first started a hub and now we can only put two before it clicks you through to the next step?  Why did we change that I wonder?  Now that it's like that, I do what Marissa said she does.  I put the two at the beginning and then I let HP help me with the others.  But, I still add some of my own that HP doesn't suggest based on what I think is appropriate.

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   Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago

   No, you haven't lost your mind, and I liked the old way better too. I used my keyword tool - wordtracker - to create my tags. Of course those are the phrases I build my hub around too.

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    hudsonj1994posted 14 years ago

    Yeah that would be sweet! They need to incorporate that!

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