You are by no means stupid! I appreciate you taking the time to share this!

By no means should you feel foolish! This business always has more to learn and stuff changes daily as well! This won't be the last time you encounter something like this. I've been doing this since 1999, and I learn new things all the time. Quite often it's stuff others have known for a while, and I'm considered an industry expert! That's just the norm for affiliate marketing!

You are not the only one... I am one of those who recently learned this too after one year of working on my website here in WA. Now it's a routine for me, as soon as the post is published, I get to work on all the SEO that follows for the page or post. I am glad that I am part of your club, that I will call 'oh wow, I did not know that!' :D

True...the more I learn, I realize the less I know. But, as you said, we just have to keep on going forward.
Debbie

I'm here since January and yes it is overwhelming and like you said ask learn share and care are the winning combinations. Thank you

We're always learning and re-learning. Thanks for the heads up on meta-tags.

So much to learn indeed! And those tags and description are our gold mine to google and traffic. so learning them is hyper important to our business. i am learning..too! thanks for this.

Meta tags took me a bit to time to grasp, thanks for highlighting this even now I can forget the meta robot.. we are always learning here hope you have a good weekend

Thank you for pointing out the importance of meta tags Pernilla. Learning is an ongoing cycle and we all learn something each and every day. Thanks for caring
Jerome

We're all always learning something new. It's one of the things that makes WA so great. We discover and we share with each other.

Hi Pernilla,

There is only so much in the lessons. Once we are finished we are on our own and the learining is ongoing.

There are members that have been here for years and are still commenting on my posts with how they didn't know about whatever topic my post was.

Don't be hard on yourself, you are doing as I do. Share. So we can all learn!

For this, I knew for a few months, only because I saw it somewhere and checked it out. They are automatically filled in with the All In One SEO but you can do them yourself. Google on the other hand my change it anyway it happens.

Thanks for sharing :D

The good thing Pernilla is that now you know, better late than never as they say. :) ~mark

Yes, they are very important. I add mine through the Post, All Post list and click on Edit. There I can add the tags, keywords and title but I can see all those I have entered for other posts at the same time so I can remember the format each one should be in.

I add extra tags (basically the same as adding extra keywords) and get traffic from those tags so it works!

I was also a long time to figure it out. So, I have tons of articles where I just have to adapt it.

you cant ask something you don't know to ask about

Don't be embarrassed at all! I've been here longer than you, and I'm still not sure I'm doing it right! Thanks for being transparent and honest:)
Blessings:)
Suzi

Mine is on auto generate. There is an auto generate option in WordPress. It will then use the 1st few lines of your post. That is why it is so important to have your keyword/s in the few first words.

You never stop learning in this ever evolving business.

Never call yourself stupid!! There`s just so much to learn in this vastness of the online world. Something that I try to do is whenever I read a new article, learn something from a new lesson or even learned the solution to one of my problems. I will go to Google and slap that term in the good ol` search engine as this way I will always get the #1 authority on the subject so that I fully understand the question at hand. I will also scroll down to where they have those 3-4 questions that pop up and I will read a few of those. I then keep a Google sheet where I put a term in, the definition, a method or action on how to use or correct the term and then also add an authority on the said topic. Finally, I have 2 paper notebooks. One is a journal and the other is my action plans for projects. I will add an entry on learning the new term or topic and if I can apply it to my current projects I will add into the correct category as each plan is broken into categories.

I was born (obviously) with a learning disability that gives me amazing memory but extremely weak recall. SO I do all this for everything I learn so that I create as many triggers as possible to help me recall the stored information as soon as I trigger that recall, I will be able to even remember when what time, what sources, what I was drinking, the weather everything about that very moment but I have to trigger the memory to get the needed information.

So we all have our strong and weak points and we all have to devise a plan to make it all work for ourselves. Just because we may learn at a slower rate or simply overlooked a certain fact or plain have a hard time with a certain subject, this does not make us dumb because where other lack we excel. I would simply chalk this one up to an overlooked fact that is now be learned licky split.

We seem like a very smart and on bthe ball person from what I have read and I think stupid is nothing more than those days your looking for your keys and their in your hand or your glasses when their on top of your head.

-Jair.

Hey Pernilla, thanks for this. I seem to spend half my life these days second guessing myself... whether I missed something in the training or it should have been the obvious thing to do and I didn't! But I'm keeping going, asking, learning, caring and sharing... we will get there. Have a great 2018, with much happiness and success, Sue :)

Thanks Pernilla

Wayne

Thanks Pernilla--I did not know this!!

Jeff

Thank you this is something that i need to do.

Oh, dear. That must have been a bit upsetting. There is so much to take in...it's basically endless.

The road to success has many discoveries, some small, some huge, but they all must be navigated. I am happy for you in your findings and continual momentum.
Ken

Congratulations on discovering something hidden in plain sight Pernilla!

There's no shame in missing something the first time through, Pernilla! I've read that we only retain about 10% of what we study in our memory. Don't beat yourself up.

It's great that you shared it for others. That took a lot of courage! Way to go!

I did know this but learnt it after writing many posts. I had to go back and fill them all in. A bit of a job but I never forget to to do it now. There is a learning curve around every corner at WA.
With Grace and Gratitude
Karen

Isn't it crazy we think we have something down and good to go and then yet another pops up whoooo gotta go go go ha ha