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The Art of Tagging

The Art of Tagging

Fygar	10 Oct, 2007 - 05:15 AM Post #1
I liek milk!!1 Joined: 28 Mar, 2002 Posts: 4,349 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	When writing a blog, what's your Tag theory? Some people use tags similar to a categorizing system, others use them more as subject specific. Me, personally, I lean more towards subject specific. If I have a blog about a piece of code, I'll generally tag it with what I'm writing in and what dev app I'm running. If I drop a name in my blog, I'll generally tag their name. Also, for the SEO guys out there, exactly how important are tags to search engines, if any? I know Technorati uses them to an extent.
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Thorian	RE: The Art Of Tagging 10 Oct, 2007 - 05:31 AM Post #2
Pirate Medic Joined: 6 Jun, 2002 Posts: 5,835 Thanked: 11 times Dream Kudos: 275 My Contributions	now are you putting meta tags in the code for each blog post or just the main site?
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maggie_noodles	RE: The Art Of Tagging 11 Oct, 2007 - 01:25 AM Post #3
pen and paper slave Joined: 8 Nov, 2006 Posts: 739 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	QUOTE(Fygar @ 10 Oct, 2007 - 09:15 PM) Me, personally, I lean more towards subject specific. ...If I drop a name in my blog, I'll generally tag their name. I do the same. Categorizing is a vague word for me.
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Fygar	RE: The Art Of Tagging 11 Oct, 2007 - 05:40 AM Post #4
I liek milk!!1 Joined: 28 Mar, 2002 Posts: 4,349 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	I have them in the blog post exclusively at the moment. Still working on making some sort of cloud or main page tag display thinger.
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Thorian	RE: The Art Of Tagging 11 Oct, 2007 - 05:49 AM Post #5
Pirate Medic Joined: 6 Jun, 2002 Posts: 5,835 Thanked: 11 times Dream Kudos: 275 My Contributions	Hmm I think I need to rewrite my blog post template.
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MarkoDaGeek	RE: The Art Of Tagging 12 Oct, 2007 - 08:34 PM Post #6
Dirty Technophile Joined: 13 Oct, 2001 Posts: 11,124 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 970 Expert In: Computer Networking, Web Development, Blogging My Contributions	with my new design I have completely switched to using tags. All of my posts were thrown into a single category and I use the tags and tag cloud built into WP 2.3 to sort everything out. I love it. More importantly however, Technorati loves it.
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sandman85048	RE: The Art Of Tagging 20 Oct, 2007 - 10:34 AM Post #7
New D.I.C Head Joined: 20 Oct, 2007 Posts: 34 Dream Kudos: 100 My Contributions	I believe that categories are much broader than tags. If you wrote a post about your soccer game, for example, you could put it in the Sports category and give it the tags soccer,fun,and Saturday.
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max302	RE: The Art Of Tagging 20 Oct, 2007 - 10:40 AM Post #8
Proud supporter of the lulz Joined: 5 Mar, 2006 Posts: 1,281 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 200 My Contributions	Sandman has it right. Categorized, then tag, so the search engines can have some fun. I`ve added tags to my blog recently, haven`t seen any change becuse I haven`t churned out anything interesting yet, but I do believe it will help users find some of my articles. As for my tagging practices, I just write down every possible word related to the article. On average, I would say that gives me 10 tags or so.
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bgmacaw	RE: The Art Of Tagging 22 Oct, 2007 - 12:08 PM Post #9
New D.I.C Head Joined: 20 Jul, 2007 Posts: 31 My Contributions	If you're using Adsense on you site the <H#>, <strong> or <b>, and meta tags play a big role in which ads are shown. As long as you don't get nuts about it you can use this to increase your payouts for these ads.
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maggie_noodles	RE: The Art Of Tagging 22 Oct, 2007 - 08:26 PM Post #10
pen and paper slave Joined: 8 Nov, 2006 Posts: 739 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	Hmm... Sandman and Max, you are making me rethink. You both made sense. Well somehow that is. Anyway, you guys are confusing me. What tags are you talking about bgmacaw? I've been blogging for more than a two years now and I heard anyone can make money out of it. I'm really willing to learn new stuffs but I just don't know where to start! Good thing this new forum has been created. Back to tags. I'm currently using Multiply for my blogs but it doesn't have that categorizing thing. Only tags. I used to write blogs at my Friendster account but I moved to Multiply. Friendster had that categorizing thing. But honestly, I have no idea how to customize it. Ged, these tags are frustrating me.
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sandman85048	RE: The Art Of Tagging 24 Oct, 2007 - 01:56 PM Post #11
New D.I.C Head Joined: 20 Oct, 2007 Posts: 34 Dream Kudos: 100 My Contributions	If you're planning to blog seriously, why not get the best you can? IMHO, WordPress.com is really good. And WordPress.org is also good, if you're willing to manually host it (although it gives you more freedom.) @bgmacaw: We don't mean HTML tags, we mean tags related to blogging.
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BetaWar	RE: The Art Of Tagging 1 Jun, 2008 - 09:00 PM Post #12
#include <soul.h> Joined: 7 Sep, 2006 Posts: 4,729 Thanked: 269 times Dream Kudos: 1400 My Contributions	If I blogged more often I would probably have a more defined way of tagging my threads, but at this point in time (for the few weeks that I have actually blogged before giving it up) I simply used what they topic was, if there were any names of people, places, or websites in the thread I wrote I added them in as well.
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