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One of the most common SEO problems on WordPress sites is that people add too many tags to posts. In fact, <a href="https://fewertags.com/research/" rel="nofollow ugc">our research shows</a> that most WordPress sites use tags wrong. The WordPress interface makes it incredibly easy to do so, and with every tag you add, you add another URL to your site for search engines to crawl and index. This plugin minimizes that effect by setting a minimum number of posts needed for a tag to be “live” on your site.
Fewer Tags Free solves this problem for you! It does that by simply not showing tags that have less than 10 posts in them to users and search engines.
Tags that have less than the configured number of posts:
<ul>
<li>Are hidden from visitors and search engines on your site, and are redirected to your homepage.</li>
<li>They don’t show up in tag listings.</li>
<li>The are no longer linked in WordPress core’s or Yoast SEO or Slim SEO generated XML sitemaps.</li>
</ul>
This positively affects your site’s SEO and also leads to less crawling, as you have less useless tag pages.
See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KItn1X1qMas" rel="nofollow ugc">this video</a> if you want to learn how to use Fewer Tags Free.
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If you want to truly solve the tag problem on your site, consider the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkF3Y6iIoDk" rel="nofollow ugc">Fewer Tags Pro plugin & course</a>. It’ll help you fix the problems with tags on your site very quickly.
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NkF3Y6iIoDk?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
You can buy Fewer Tags Pro (or read more about it) on <a href="https://fewertags.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">fewertags.com</a>!

Fewer Tags Free

This plugin minimizes the effect of having too many tags by setting a minimum number of posts needed for a tag to be “live” on your site.

Bernhard Riedl

This plugin is a <a href="https://www.bernhard-riedl.com/2010/08/01/tagpages-tags-functionality-for-pages-in-wordpress-30/" rel="nofollow ugc">follow-up</a> to the post which I wrote <a href="https://www.bernhard-riedl.com/2007/10/06/wordpress-23-tagging-posts-and-pages/" rel="nofollow ugc">a few years ago</a>. – The idea was (and still is) to equip pages with <a href="https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/" rel="nofollow ugc">tags</a> and include their number in a combined posts and pages <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_tag_cloud" rel="nofollow ugc">tag-cloud</a>.
TagPages is fully compatible with <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Over_SSL" rel="nofollow ugc">https/SSL/TLS-sites</a> and WordPress multisite network.
Plugin’s website: <a href="https://www.bernhard-riedl.com/projects/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.bernhard-riedl.com/projects/</a>
Author’s website: <a href="https://www.bernhard-riedl.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.bernhard-riedl.com/</a>

Fewer Tags Free vs TagPages