I added this as you suggested (it’s taken out now):

<?php the_tags(‘Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ”); ?>

I also tried adding the technorati tags plugin that’s still in there. If you look at the source you will see this:

So for some reason the template isn’t allowing the tags to go thru. If I use another template the tags show up…

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Just spent the past few days studying up on tags, technorati, and other blog search engines.

First, we all should be using the rel-”tag” (note that – should be an = sign) on all our links that have key words. Many of those links you may not want to have a tag for your visitors to follow. This works well with blog search engines, also. This allows your keywords to be tagged without needing to put a tag at the bottom of your post

Remember that technorati uses + while wordpress uses – between words. Technorati also uses the – for tags but they aren’t the primary tags, thus a multi word tag on technorati should be worda+wordb+wordc while that will be worda-wordb-wordc on wordpress.

Here’s the problem.
You cannot link within a post to your technorati tag (worda+wordb+wordc) because wordpress will remove the + and you get wordawordbwordc

Not what you really want.

Let me see if I can make this clearer.
You may want to hyperlink keywords within the post but not leave your site and have no real post to link to, thus you would love to link to that tag, right? Well, to have that tag be equal to technorati you want to us a “+” between words, but you can’t do that in a wordpress link. WordPress will remove the +.
The only way to link keywords to a tag page in wordpress is to seperate words with a -
That’s the same way wordpress sees your tags, categories, and everything else. WordPress always uses – while technorati used a +

The only real way to stay on your site and use the + is to link the keywords to a search function (hyperlink like normal but end with index.php?s=wordsa+wordb” rel-”tag”) This will then cause a search function on your site for that tagged words in the hyperlink

This is a long way to say, on wordpress you will never have a tag “page” that is equal to a tchnorati tag because wordpress doesn’t allow the use of + as a separator between words.

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I haven’t found a problem with duplicate content using tags. I know it’s a big topic but google seems to be ok with tags. I’ve been adding tons on my wordpress.com blog and haven’t seen any problems. However, I do like to keep them to a smaller number on my main blogs but I’ve seen others that use them by the truck loads.

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