SEO bad tag hyperlink structure at end of post

  • The tag links at the bottom of each post show up in the SE site search results all run together as one word. They need to be separated by a space so that they reflect the content of the post that is returned in the site description in the SE.

    From the source data view:

    <footer class="entry-meta"><span class="tag-links"><a href="https://www.example.com/tag/beheading/" rel="tag">beheading</a><a href="https://www.example.com/tag/christian/" rel="tag">Christian</a><a href="https://www.example.com/tag/iraq/" rel="tag">Iraq</a><a href="https://www.example.com/tag/isil-vs-isis/" rel="tag">ISIL vs ISIS</a></span></footer></article><!-- #post-## --> There should be a space between link anchor text or a pipe.

    From Google search results:

    Example.com | Opeds Editorials
https://www.example.com/
5 days ago - ... ISIS - Ushering in the Caliphate?
GazaisisISIS vs. ISLIslamIslamic CaliphateIsraelkurdistanmilitary aidObama ...

    There is no SEO upside benefit from the tags at the end of the post rather a downside to including them as they are. This should be fixed.

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  • Please provide a link to your site so we can see the issue. thanks.

    EDIT:
    Are you talking about seeing those tags displayed on Google Search Engine Results Pages? You should not be showing those in that location, your description meta tag should be being displayed.

    OR are talking about getting some kind of SEO juice via those tags? If so, that is not their intent, they are for human navigation. Regardless, Google wouldn’t give those tags any special weight or consideration even if they did have a space separating them, that’s keyword stuffing and frowned upon.

    Thread Starter eichcj

    (@eichcj)

    The tags are showing in the Google results:

    `
    Example.com | Opeds Editorials
    https://www.example.com/
    5 days ago – … ISIS – Ushering in the Caliphate?’
    GazaisisISIS vs. ISLIslamIslamic CaliphateIsraelkurdistanmilitary aidObama …

    These are the tags that show up in CSS styled flags at the bottom of each post and they also show up in the tag cloud. If they are not supposed to show up in Google then they should have no-follow or no-index attributes set – apparently they don’t. They are not keyword stuffing they are natural tags for on-site keyword searching and for tag cloud content. I would rather PM the site address.

    Thread Starter eichcj

    (@eichcj)

    Screenshots posted at postimage.org:
    Google Search results

    Tags at bottom of post

    I found your blog https://www.si*****port.com

    Looking through your code, the problem is that you are not rendering any meta description tag on your pages so Google has to take a guess and is showing garbled / random / not controllable / not predictable string of text.

    You really should use the out-of-the-box WordPress meta description functionality OR a plugin like yoast WordPress SEO Plugin which gives you a finer granularity on controlling these and more like adding Open Graph tags.

    One of my blogs is using the yoast plugin, here, view source and look near the top of my page to see all the metadata being displayed as well as the line you are missing starting with <meta name="description" content="

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