{"id":454,"date":"2014-07-08T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T10:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcnobbs.wordpress.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2022-02-22T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:22:24","slug":"the-power-of-proper-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markgeveritt.uk\/wp\/2014\/07\/08\/the-power-of-proper-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Proper Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over on a different blog<\/a>, I posted a piece on Ms Debbie Delamar<\/a>, who claims to be the proud owner of Britain’s Biggest Fake Boobs. She’s been all over the media (or the gutter press, if you prefer) this past weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn’t a particularly unusual post, in the sense that it was pretty much what I was planning for that blog, which is to say, me moaning about something I’ve seen, heard or read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s interesting is that I ‘tagged’ the post with what seemed to me to be relevant tags – just like I’ve tagged this one. Again, nothing unusual\u2014I try to tag all my posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But blow me if I didn’t get a shock when I looked at the blog stats last night (and, indeed, again this morning). Massive amount of hits. Massive. The most I’ve ever had on any post ever. Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but more hits than I expected, given it this is a new blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the really good thing is that because I’ve a menu that takes you to my ‘regular’ website, I had a spike in hits there too. This can only be a good thing, surely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the moral of this little post is this, tag your posts properly and write about popular\/controversial stuff and you’ll get more hits. Now, it’s not like I didn’t already know that, but to have it proven in such stark terms on one post on a new blog – You get the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over on a different blog, I posted a piece on Ms Debbie Delamar, who claims to be the proud owner of Britain’s Biggest Fake Boobs. She’s been all over the media (or the gutter press, if you prefer) this past weekend. It wasn’t a particularly unusual post, in the sense that it was pretty much what I was planning for that blog, which is to say, me moaning about something I’ve seen, heard or read. What’s interesting is that I ‘tagged’ the post with what seemed to me to be relevant tags – just like I’ve tagged this one. Again, nothing unusual\u2014I try to tag all my posts. But blow me if I didn’t get a shock when I looked at the blog stats last night (and, indeed, again this morning). Massive amount of hits. Massive. The most I’ve ever had on any post ever. Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but more hits than I expected, given it this is a new blog. And the really good thing is that because I’ve a menu that takes you to my ‘regular’ website, I had a spike in hits there too. This can only be a good thing, surely. So, the moral of this little post is this, tag your posts properly and write about popular\/controversial stuff and you’ll get more hits. Now, it’s not like I didn’t already know that, but to have it proven in such stark terms on one post on a new blog – You get the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,2,135],"tags":[4,149,152,218,239,240],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54","category-blog","category-personal","tag-blogging","tag-britains-biggest-boobs","tag-britians-biggest-fake-boobs","tag-proper-tags","tag-tagging-posts","tag-tags"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markgeveritt.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sterling-cash.jpg?fit=1000%2C664&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":475,"url":"https:\/\/www.markgeveritt.uk\/wp\/2020\/05\/12\/still-generating-hits\/","url_meta":{"origin":454,"position":0},"title":"Still Generating Hits","author":"Mark Everitt","date":"12 May 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Like most people who operate a website, I keep an eye on the stats\u2014the number of visitors to the site, the pages they hit and where the traffic is coming from","rel":"","context":"In "2020"","block_context":{"text":"2020","link":"https:\/\/www.markgeveritt.uk\/wp\/category\/2020\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markgeveritt.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Annotation-2020-05-11-1636012.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markgeveritt.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Annotation-2020-05-11-1636012.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markgeveritt.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Annotation-2020-05-11-1636012.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1544,"url":"https:\/\/www.markgeveritt.uk\/wp\/2022\/12\/07\/how-did-i-end-up-with-a-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":454,"position":1},"title":"How did I end up with a Blog?","author":"Mark Everitt","date":"7 December 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday I paid the invoice for the hosting of this site and the domains that go with it. 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