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Related Posts – Tags have to be EXACTLY the same?

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9:53 am
December 7, 2009


tbarker@bridgerbay.com

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Post edited 4:53 pm – December 7, 2009 by tbarker@bridgerbay.com


I wish I could use this plugin, but my understanding is that it only considers posts as "related" when they have an EXACT tag match.

I use tags primarily for the long tail related to each post, so only rarely will I have the exact same tag used in multiple posts. I would think phrase match (or maybe even broad match) would be much better if you're going to use tags?

5:10 pm
December 7, 2009


AaronCampbell

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Phrase matching (or similar) with tags would definitely NOT be efficient.  This particular plugin is for high-volume or high-traffic sites, and I need to make sure it stays as efficient as possible.

You might consider using the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin which offer more matching functionality, but not as much efficiency.

On a more personal note, I think tags become useless if they match too many or too few posts.  The whole idea of tags is to create logical groups of posts.  A group that's too big might as well be all posts, and if only a single post is in a group it might as well be a single post page.  Again, that's just my opinion…but it's served me pretty well on quite a few sites.

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