The tags and categories that appear above or under a blog post (depends on the theme) links to the global tag pages of wordpress.com. I will show you a way to put tags and categories so that they link to your own blog.
That ensures that visitors will not be thrown out of your blog and into the related global tag page of wordpress.com in the quest for more related content!
Instructions
Believe it or not, you don’t need to spend money for a css upgrade in order to do this. You just have to put hyperlinks right in the title field of posts.
Choose from the list of tags and categories in your side bar and choose one tag and one category that are appropriate for that blog post. It is possible to add more tags and categories if you want, but it is not advisable to add too many.
Now all you have to do is put text links right after the actual blog post title, right within the post title field.
For example, this is what I put in the title field of this post:
How to link wordpress.com blog posts to local tags and categories. <em>posted in tag:<a href=”http://shongjog.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-tips/”>wordpress tips</a></em>, <em>filed under: <a href=”http://shongjog.wordpress.com/category/blog-promotion/”>Blog Promotion</a></em>
Helpful tips
1. You must still choose tags/categories from under your blog editor in the admin area and make sure they are the same as they appear in the text links in the blog post. Otherwise, your post will not be added to your local tag page.
2. You should put up a notice somewhere visible, that instructs the visitors that the tags and categories attached to the post title lead to your blog and the other set leads to the wordpress.com global tag pages.
You may say that you don’t have to put links to your tags and categories in the post title, because you can add those links at the end of the post.
But consider this, if you put those links in the post title, they appear as hyperlinks when someone reblogs your post.
Here is how a reblog of this post looks:
I suspect that links put in the post titles remain intact when splogged. In that case, you are adding links to your own blog and copyright information (more on copyright information coming soon) in that splog and that tells Google that you are the original creator of the content.
Put links to local tags in wordpress.com global tag pages
And last but not the least, this technique enables you to link to your local tags right in the wordpress.com global tag pages!
Have you ever seen any local tag in wordpress.com global tag pages? Visit the link I have pasted above and you can see some!
