| SEO is an amazing animal. There are more things | | | | general. |
| involved with search engine optimization than you can | | | | If you have a Hub Page or Squidoo Lens, and say |
| shake a stick at. In this article, I'm going to focus on | | | | you have a page on dogs or cats, what you would |
| one piece of it...tag pages. It may not seem like a big | | | | want to do is find other Hub Pages or Squidoo |
| deal, but by optimizing this aspect, you can get more | | | | Lenses that had the same tags as your page. If you |
| people to your site. And after all, isn't that ultimately | | | | then add these tags to your own page, this will give |
| what you want? Anyway, I think you will find this | | | | us links from pages that are already ranked. This is a |
| simple aspect of SEO quite helpful. | | | | very easy way to build backlinks without too much |
| Okay, so just what are tag pages? Well, I specifically | | | | hassle. |
| use this tactic for Squidoo lenses and Hub Pages. | | | | The key to making this work for you is to use as |
| These are pages that are already listed in Google | | | | many tags as you possibly can. If you have a dog or |
| that will add links to our OWN lenses and hub pages. | | | | cat page, you know that there are a lot of breeds. |
| I know you're probably wondering how. Don't | | | | You can add up to 40 tags for a Squidoo Lens and |
| worry...I'm getting there. | | | | up to 10 tags for a Hub Page. So take advantage of |
| First, you need to understand what a tag is. A tag is | | | | that. There are close to 40 different breeds of cats |
| really similar to a keyword except it is slightly | | | | alone. |
| different. The best way to explain what a tag is, is | | | | These tag pages will not only send you traffic |
| with an example. Let's say you had a page on your | | | | internally between the Squidoo and Hub Pages |
| site that was all about dogs. Tags would refer to | | | | system but will also help to get you ranked very high |
| specific breeds of dogs such as "poodles", "boxers", | | | | with Google...especially if the pages you're linked to |
| "terriers" and so on. If you had a page on cats, tags | | | | are ranked high. It's essentially piggy backing off of |
| might be "Manx", "Persian", "Burmese" and so on. | | | | somebody else's success. |
| Okay, got it? Tags are the specific as related to the | | | | |