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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.
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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.

conlabz GmbH

Your wordpress website includes third party scripts and tools like website traffic analytics, ad banners counter by feedburner or some top lists. Google Tag Manager provides a comprehensive user interface to manage all these scripts (tags) and include them with a single plugin into your wordpress powered website.
This plugin includes both the javascript code to bring those tags into your site and the fall back iframe code to still provide functionality if javascript is disabled. Installation requires just two simple steps
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin.</li>
<li>Input the container ID in preferences</li>
</ol>
Instead of copy and pasting lots of script tags into you wordpress theme files or managing a couple of plugins for diverse services you can now serve this all from a single source – the Tag Manager. Tags are comfortably managed in the Google user interface, no need to further touch you wordpress installation.
Registration for Tag Manager (https://www.google.com/tagmanager/) is two simple steps before you receive the Container ID which is the only information the plugin requires to work properly. From now on, you have a couple of advantages:
<ul>
<li>a comprehensive overview of all tags you are using</li>
<li>tags can be deactivated in the Tag Manager</li>
<li>you can preview changes on your site before putting them live for your visitors</li>
<li>provide access to tags management for marketing staff – no code changes needed</li>
<li>use all the rules and macros to fine grained adjust tag usage</li>
</ul>
Besides management of tags you’ll notice better loading times of your website due to asynchonous loading of scripts.
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Technical stuff:
WordPress only allows placement of tag-manager-code in the footer through wp_footer action hook. So if you want to place the code directly behind the body tag you have to edit your theme like this:
…
<body>
<?php global $wp_google_tag_manager;
if(is_object($wp_google_tag_manager) && is_a($wp_google_tag_manager,”WpGoogleTagManager”)){
$wp_google_tag_manager->output_manual();
} ?>
…

WP Google Tag Manager

Includes tags (code snippets) from Google Tag Manager into your site

Fewer Tags Free vs WP Google Tag Manager