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1. askdem
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   TECHNICALLY, I need to know what are tags. I mean, those keywords that i use often to get a good search engine position. My posts always get ranked by tags and not by permalinks.

   Let's suppose i'm not using WordPress and i want to create from scratch those tags. Are just links in a sitemap.xml pointing to a permalink?

   I repeat, technically, what are tags?

   Thanks for your help. =)

   @dmanzur

2. askdem
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29

   Each of those tags is usually a web link leading to an index page listing
   all of the posts associated with that tag.

   Only a Weblink? How does it work?

3. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This should help:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Posts_Tags_SubPanel

4. askdem
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for ur help Mac. But still have no answer. The link you posted os theory. I need to know technically how tags are made. In the core of WordPress. The backend, the code. =)

5. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Then maybe this is what you're looking for:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Taxonomy

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description#Table:_wp_terms

6. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Code wise, tags are exactly the same as categories. If you look at your WP database, you'll see both your categories and tags all together. They're made by defining a tag, which creates an entry on your database.

   That's it.

   As for why Google ranks your tags above your cats, I have no idea.

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