Tips to Deal with Tag Sprawl

Tag Sprawl is “unchecked growth of unique, user-contributed tags resulting in a large amount of near-duplicate pages and unnecessary crawl space”. The fake pages created around popular keywords is an example of tag sprawl. Almost all Internet marketers are facing the Tag Sprawl problem. To solve it MOZ writer Russ Jones has presented some solutions which starts with finding the good and bad tags. On how to identify the good tags, Jones says, “Keeping the goal in mind of identifying good tags, labeling bad tags, and relating bad tags to good tags, we employed more than a dozen... [...]